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Australian Human Rights Commission
The Australian Human Rights Commission promotes disability rights to build a more accessible and inclusive society. The Commission has a guide to the laws that protect all people from discrimination and information on access to justice for people with disability that you can access on their website. You can also make a human rights complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission. The complaints process is free.
Disabled People’s Organisations Australia
The Disabled People’s Organisations (DPO) Australia promotes the human rights and freedoms of all people with disability.
Disability rights for young people
In Victoria, Children and Young People with Disability Australia argue for inclusive education and can support you to achieve you and/or your child’s human rights.
Women with Disability Australia (WWDA) – Your rights
Information about your rights, sex and your body, life choices and more.
Fair Work Ombudsman
The Fair Work Ombudsman and the Fair Work Commission are the government organisations that regulate Australia’s workplace relations system. You can find information about your employment rights from their websites.
Financial decision making for people with disability
Public trustees and guardians can be appointed to make financial decisions for people that have a decision-making disability.
- Find out how a public guardian in the ACT can help with financial decision making
- Find out how a Public Guardian in New South Wales can help with financial decision making
- Find out how a public guardian in the Northern Territory can help with financial decision making
- Find out how a public guardian in Queensland can help with financial decision making
- Find out how an administrator can help with financial decision making
- Find out how a public guardian in Tasmania can help with financial decision making
- Find out how a public guardian in Victoria can help with financial decision making
- Find out how a public guardian in Western Australia can help with financial decision making
Better Start for Children with Disability initiative
If your child has an eligible disability, they may be able to access subsidised services through the Better Start for Children with Disability initiative.
In control our way: supporting NDIS self-management
The project aims to establish a series of resources to assist if you are interested to learn more about NDIS self-management or keen to move from agency or plan management to self-management.
Australian Government – Support for parents and caregivers of children with disability
The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) protects Australians from discrimination based on disability. The DDA makes it unlawful to discriminate on the ground of the person’s disability. This includes discrimination that occurs in the context of accessing and participating in children’s education and care services. All children’s education and care services (including family day care) must comply with the DDA.
The Department of Education has partnered with Children and Young People with Disability Australia to co-design resources that help parents and caregiver of children with disability to understand their rights under the DDA.
Australian Government – support for students with disability and their parents and caregivers
The Disability Standards for Education 2005 clarify the obligations of education and training providers and seek to ensure that students with disability can access and participate in education on the same basis as students without disability.
The Department of Education has partnered with Children and Young People with Disability Australia to co-design resources that help students to understand their rights under the Disability Standards for Education 2005, and to work with their education provider to make reasonable adjustments which help them learn and participate on the same basis as their peers.