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NDIS (Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support) Rules 2018; Australian Government,
Department of Social Services, ‘NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework’ (9 December 2016)
<https://www.dss.gov.au/disability-and-carers/programs-services/for-people-withdisability/ndis-quality-and-safeguarding-framework-0>.
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‘NDIS Commission Activity Reports’, NDIS Commission (Web page)
<https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/resources/reports-policies-and-frameworks/ndiscommission-activity-reports>.
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Parliament of Australia, Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Violence, Abuse
and Neglect against People with Disability in Institutional and Residential Settings, Including the
Gender and Age Related Dimensions, and the Particular Situation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander People with Disability, and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse People with (25 November
2015) Recommendation 10.58
<https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Viol
ence_abuse_neglect/Report>.
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See Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability,
Issues Paper: Restrictive practices (May 2020)
<https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/publications/restrictive-practices>.
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See Australian Human Rights Commission, Information Concerning Australia’s Compliance with
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (12 June 2018) [25];
Australian Human Rights Commission, Information Relating to Australia’s Joint Fifth and Sixth
Report under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Second Report on the Optional Protocol on
the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and Second Report on the Optional
Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (1 November 2018) [204]-[205]; and
Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee:
Information Concerning Australia’s Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (18 September 2017) [61].
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See Australian Human Rights Commission, Information Concerning Australia’s Compliance with
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (12 June 2018).
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See eg, Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission No 5 to the Senate Community
Affairs References Committee, The Involuntary or Coerced Sterilisation of People with Disabilities in
Australia (20 November 2012) <http://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=3d3c9b647a59- 4e30-bd96-e38d52fe85c8&subId=16108>.
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Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission No 491 to the Productivity Commission,
Inquiry into the Social and Economic Benefits of Improving Mental Health (18 April 2019)
<https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/current/mental-health/submissions>.
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See Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to the Committee on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (July 2019), [66] <https://www.humanrights.gov.au/ourwork/legal/submission/information-concerning-australias-compliance-convention-rightspersons>.
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Australian Institute for Health and Welfare, Mental health services in Australia (August 2022)
<https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mental-health-services/mental-health-services-inaustralia/report-content/restrictive-practices-in-mental-health-care>.
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Australian Human Rights Commission, A Future Without Violence: Quality, Safeguarding and
Oversight to Prevent and Address Violence against People with Disability in Institutional Settings (June
2018) <https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/disability-rights/publications/future-withoutviolence-2018>.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence in Australia:
Continuing the National Story 2019 (June 2019) <https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/domesticviolence/family-domestic-sexual-violence-australia-2019/report-editions>.
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