Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – 25 July 2019 97 Australian Government, ‘Review of Funding for Schooling - Final Report’ (December 2011) xvi– xvii <https://docs.education.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/review-of-funding-for-schooling-finalreport-dec-2011.pdf>. 98 Australian Government, above n 37, [275(b)]. 99 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Access to Health Services by Australians with Disability’ (3 December 2017) <https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/disability/access-health-servicesdisability/contents/content>. 100 Julian Trollor et al, ‘Cause of Death and Potentially Avoidable Deaths in Australian Adults with Intellectual Disability Using Retrospective Linked Data’ (2017) 7(2) BMJ Open e013489; Faculty of Medicine, The Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry 3DN, ‘Health Inequality and People with Intellectual Disability - Research Summary’ (April 2019) <http://www.nswcid.org.au/images/Advocacy/Research-Analysis-Health-Status-of-People-WithIntellectual-Disability.pdf>. 101 Australian Human Rights Commission, ‘The Indicators of, and Impact of, Regional Inequality in Australian - Submission to the Senate Economics References Committee’ (Submission 33, 30 April 2018) <https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=16515e83-f424-432f-ae02ea62d338d2f0&subId=565544>. 102 For example, 32% of children living in rural or remote NSW are unable to access the health services they need. Royal Far West, ‘The Invisible Children - The State of Country Children’s Health and Development in Australia’ (2017) <https://www.royalfarwest.org.au/wpcontent/uploads/2017/12/Invisible-children-web.pdf>. 103 Productivity Commission, above n 11, 12–13, 93. 104 Productivity Commission, above n 11, 14. 105 UN Human Rights Council, Annual Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Empowering Children with Disabilities for the Enjoyment of Their Human Rights, Including through Inclusive Education, UN Doc A/HRC/40/27 (22 January 2019) 32. 106 Australian Government, above n 37, [303]. 107 National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cth) s 3(1)(c). 108 The Commission supports the establishment of a Participant Employment Taskforce and an Economic Participation Grant Round through the NDIA’s ILC program. The Hon Paul Fletcher MP, The Hon Sarah Henderson MP, ‘Media Release: More than $19 Million to Support the Work of the NDIS Participant Employment Taskforce’ (25 November 2018) <https://www.ndis.gov.au/news/1166-more-19-million-support-work-ndis-participantemployment-taskforce2>. 109 Australian Bureau of Statistics, above n 18. 110 Australian Public Service Commission, ‘APS Employment Data 30 June 2018 Release - Diversity and Gender’ (30 June 2018) <https://www.apsc.gov.au/3-diversity-and-gender>. 111 Australia Council of Social Service and the University of New South Wales, Poverty in Australia 2018 (2018) < https://www.acoss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ACOSS_Poverty-inAustralia-Report_Web-Final.pdf>. 112 Australian Council of Social Service and University of New South Wales, ‘Poverty in Australia 2018’ (2018) <https://www.acoss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ACOSS_Poverty-inAustralia-Report_Web-Final.pdf>. 113 Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth), s 93(8)(a), 118(4). See also Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 (NSW) s 25(a); Electoral Act 1907 (WA) s 18(1)(a); Electoral Act 1985 (SA) s 29(1)(iv). 114 Australian Law Reform Commission, ‘Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws’, above n 6. 115 Christine Bigby et al, ‘Final Report: Strategies to Support People with Intellectual Disabilities to Participate in Voting.’ (Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University, April 2019) <http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/latrobe:42631>. 116 Bigby et al, above n 115, 63. 117 58 Productivity Commission, above n 11, 37, Recommendation 5.2.