Australian Human Rights Commission
Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – 25 July 2019
25
Productivity Commission, above n 11, 12.
Productivity Commission, above n 11, Recommendation 5.3.
27
Defined as ‘an adjustment to be made by a person is a reasonable adjustment unless making
the adjustment would impose an unjustifiable hardship on the person’ Disability Discrimination Act
1992 (Cth) s 4.
28
Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) s 5(2).
29
Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) s 6(2).
30
As explained in the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
General Comment No.6 (2011) on Equality and Non-Discrimination UN Doc CRPD/C/GC/6 (26 April
2018).
31
Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Social Services, ‘Australian Government Plan to
Improve Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People with Disability’ (2017)
<https://www.dss.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/10_2017/dss0001_atsi_disability_plan_acc
essible_v1.pdf>.
32
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence in Australia:
Continuing the National Story 2019’ (5 June 2019) <https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/domesticviolence/family-domestic-sexual-violence-australia-2019/report-editions>.
33
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual
Harassment in Australian Workplaces (2018). <https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/sexdiscrimination/publications/everyones-business-fourth-national-survey-sexual>
34
Australian Human Rights Commission, ‘Input to the Fourth Action Plan under the National Plan
to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children 2010-2022’ (18 October 2018).
35
Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to the United Nations Committee on the
Rights of the Child, 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) [20], Recommendation 5.
<https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/childrens-rights/publications/report-un-committeerights-child-2018>.
36
Australian Law Reform Commission, ‘Family Law for the Future — An Inquiry into the Family
Law System’ (March 2019) <https://www.alrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/alrc_report_135.pdf>.
37
Australian Government, ‘Combined Second and Third Periodic Reports Submitted by Australia
under Article 35 of the Convention, Due in 2018’ (CRPD/C/AUS/2-3, 5 February 2019) [97].
38
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Child Protection Australia 2017-18’ (8 March 2019)
2017–18 <https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/child-protection/child-protection-australia-201718/contents/table-of-contents>.
39
Australian Human Rights Commission, ‘2017-2018 Complaint Statistics’
<https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/AHRC_Complaints_AR_Stats_Tables_201718.pdf>.
40
Anne Kavanagh et al, ‘Community Attitudes towards Australians with Disability: Results from a
National Survey, June 2019’ (30 June 2019)
<https://melbourne.figshare.com/articles/Community_Attitudes_towards_Australians_with_Disabi
lity_Results_from_a_National_Survey_June_2019/8341343>.
41
Social Policy Research Centre, Disability Studies and Research Centre, University of New South
Wales, ‘Community Attitudes to People with Disability: Scoping Project’ (Occasional Paper No.39)
<https://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/media/SPRCFile/Australian_community_attitudes_to_disability.pd
f>.
42
University of New South Wales, Social Policy Research Centre, above n 7, 4.
43
Australian Human Rights Commission, ‘Review of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public
Transport 2002 - Submission to the Disabilities Transport Access Secretariat Department of
Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities’ (30 November 2018); Australian Human Rights
Commission, ‘Submission No.38 to the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee - Inquiry53
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