Publications

Disability Rights

Willing to Work - Booklet 1: about the National Inquiry

Explore a series of booklets that are part of a National Inquiry in to employment discrimination against older Australians and Australians with disability.

Disability Rights

Issues paper: Employment discrimination against Australians with disability

This Paper is one of two Issues Papers for the Willing to Work: National Inquiry into Employment Discrimination against Older Australians and Australians with Disability. This paper focuses on issues facing persons with disability, while the other focuses on issues facing older Australians. Each...

Disability Rights

Info and Communications Technology in the A.P.S – the need for change

The low rate of employment of people with disability in the Australian Public Service (APS) is unsatisfactory in terms of the government’s broader objectives, and from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s perspective in terms of the right to work of people with disability. The Australian Human...

Disability Rights

Equal Before the Law

Equality Before The Law is a basic tenet of human rights. But I have learned, both as an advocate and during my time as Australia's Disability Discrimination Commissioner, that equality is not always available for Australians with disabilities in the criminal justice system. This report provides a...

Disability Rights

Access to Justice for People with Disability in the Justice System

Global business law firm DLA Piper has worked in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Commission to address issues facing people with disabilities wanting better access to Australia's criminal justice system. The Commission led an investigation into the barriers people who need...

Disability Rights

Advisory Note on streetscape, public outdoor areas, fixtures, fittings and furniture

The Commission has issued this Advisory Notes on streetscape, public outdoor areas, fixtures, fittings and furniture to assist those responsible for premises who are seeking to improve access on matters not covered by the Premises Standards.

Disability Rights

Know your rights: Disability discrimination

Disability discrimination is when a person with a disability is treated less favourably than a person without the disability in the same or similar circumstances.

Disability Rights

Guideline for compliance of bus stops with Accessible Public Transport

The Guideline has been prepared by the Commission to assist bus infrastructure providers to comply with the DSAPT. The Guideline does not replace the provisions of the DSAPT and does not seek to alter or expand upon the content of the DSAPT.

Disability Rights

The good, the bad and the ugly: Design and construction for access

The purpose of this resource is to explain how people with a disability benefit from good design and construction and why precise application of relevant technical specifications is necessary to achieve the greatest level of access for the greatest number of people.

Disability Rights

Workability 2: Solutions

People with Disability in the Open Workplace. Final Report of the National Inquiry into Employment and Disability.

Disability Rights

Disability Rights: Not for Service: Index

Not For Service: Experiences of Injustice and Despair in Mental Health Care in Australia is the most significant report on mental health care in Australia for over a decade. In 1992 all Australian Governments initiated the National Mental Health Strategy to correct decades of neglect and assure the...

Disability Rights

The Sterilisation of Girls and Young Women in Australia

The Sterilisation of Girls and Young Women in Australia: issues and progress (2001)by Susan Brady, John Britton & Sonia GroverA Report jointly commissioned by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner and the Disability Discrimination Commissioner at...