47
For instance, a lack of accessible information may be particularly significant for First Nations or
culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability who live in rural and remote communities, or
people with disability who have migrated to Australia from overseas where they accessed different
service systems. See Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with
Disability, Overview of responses to the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse people with
disability (Issues Paper, November 2021) 10
<https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/202203/Overview%20of%20responses%20to%20the%20Culturally%20and%20linguistically%20diverse%20p
eople%20with%20disability%20Issues%20paper.pdf>.
48
Negative attitudes towards disability and a lack of culturally safe and appropriate services and
supports can all impede effective service delivery, with discrimination based on outward difference –
such as racial stereotyping – interfering with healthcare delivery and diagnoses. See Royal Commission
into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, Overview of responses to the
experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability (Issues Paper, November 2021) 6–9
<https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/202203/Overview%20of%20responses%20to%20the%20Culturally%20and%20linguistically%20diverse%20p
eople%20with%20disability%20Issues%20paper.pdf>.
49
Culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability have raised privacy concerns based on
experiences where interpreters have shared confidential health information with other people in their
community. See Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with
Disability, Overview of responses to the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse people with
disability (Issues Paper, November 2021) 8
<https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/202203/Overview%20of%20responses%20to%20the%20Culturally%20and%20linguistically%20diverse%20p
eople%20with%20disability%20Issues%20paper.pdf>.
50
Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, Overview of
responses to the Violence and abuse in the home (Issues Paper, March 2022).
51
Hayley Boxall, Morgan Anthony and Rick Brown, Experiences of domestic violence among women with
restrictive and long term health conditions (Report prepared for the Royal Commission into Violence,
Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, 11 May 2021).
52
Australian Government Department of Health, Cases in NDIS services, March 2022; Royal Commission
into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, The impact of and responses to
the Omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic for people with disability (Issues Paper, March 2022) 11
<https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/2022-04/Issues%20paper%20%20The%20impact%20of%20and%20responses%20to%20the%20Omicron%20wave%20of%20the%20
COVID-19%20pandemic%20for%20people%20with%20disability.pdf>.
53
All visas that attract Public Interest Criteria 4005 must satisfy the health requirements. This is in
contrast to the limited number of visas attracting Public Interest Criteria 4007, which contains a ‘health
waiver’.
54
Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) Schedule 4, Public Interest Criteria 4005. In 2019, the threshold for the
‘significant cost’ test was increased from $40,000 (AUD) assessed over a person’s life expectancy, to
$49,000 (AUD) assessed over a ten-year period or life expectancy (whichever is shorter).
55
Joint Standing Committee on Migration, Parliament of Australia, Enabling Australia: Inquiry into the
Migration Treatment of Disability (Report, 21 June 2010) 177 [7.47], noting the opinion of Professor Ben
Saul.
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