National Disability Strategy Webinar

The Australian Human Rights Commission and the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health invite you to a panel discussion on Stage 2 consultations for Australia's next National Disability Strategy, which will guide Australia’s disability policy for the next decade.

This panel discussion will help you to provide your own input and ideas to shape the next National Disability Strategy. The National Disability Strategy Position Paper (July 2020) released by the Department of Social Services (https://engage.dss.gov.au/nds-stage2-consultation/national-disability-strategy-position-paper/) will be discussed.

Topics will include:

• What are critical issues for the new National Disability Strategy?
• What will the former National Disability Strategy be remembered for?
• What needs to be reflected in the new National Disability Strategy?

Hear from speakers including:

• Dr Ben Gauntlett, Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission
• Damian Griffis, CEO, First Peoples Disability Network

A reflection on the last National Disability Strategy

• Professor Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Co-Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health, and Director at the Centre for Disability Research and Policy, the University of Sydney and Head, WHO Collaborating Centre in Health Workforce Development in Rehabilitation and Long Term Care
• Robert Fitzgerald AM, NSW Ageing and Disability Commissioner
• Professor Karen Fisher, Social Policy Research Centre, University of NSW
• Kirsten Deane, Campaign Director, Every Australian Counts (video)

What is needed under the National Disability Strategy

• Senator the Hon Anne Ruston, Minister for Families and Social Services
• Rosemary Kayess, UN Committee Member for Committee on the Rights of People with Disabilities
• Paula Tesoriero MNZM, NZ Disability Rights Commissioner, NZ Human Rights Commission
• Heidi LaPaglia, Project and Policy Officer, Women with Disabilities Australia (video)

Issues for the new National Disability Strategy

• Professor Anne Kavanagh, Co-Director and Lead Investigator of the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health, Academic Director at the Melbourne Disability Institute, University of Melbourne, and Chair in Disability and Health at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
• Edward Santow, Human Rights Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission
• Mary Sayers, CEO, Children and Young People with Disability Australia
• Damian Griffis, CEO, First Peoples Disability Network
• Associate Professor Gemma Carey, Research Director of the Centre for Social Impact at UNSW, and Chief Investigator at the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health
• Brandon Tomlin, Communication Access Assessor, Scope (video)
• Associate Professor Dr Hannah Badland, Deputy Director of the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT, and Chief Investigator at the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health

Registrations are being managed by The Social Deck on behalf of the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health.