A New Disability Rights Act
View the recording from our recent discussion on the findings and recommendations of the Disability Royal Commission and what needs to be done to ensure people with disability are able to enjoy the same rights and opportunities as others in the Australian community.
Host and Moderator:
- Kirsten Deane, Melbourne Disability Institute
Panellists:
- Dr Alastair McEwin AM, Royal Commissioner and Australia's Disability Discrimination Commissioner from 2016-2019
- Micheline Lee, Disability activist and author of the Quarterly Essay, Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS
- Natalie Wade, Founder and principal lawyer of Equality Lawyers
- El Gibbs, Award-winning writer and disability activist
View the recording and download the captions from the session below.
You can view the recording here:
https://vimeo.com/926944650/8608fd4f13?share=copy
You can download the captions from this link: https://disability.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/word_doc/0007/4885495/Transcript.docx
Further Resources
- Free and Equal: Human Rights Act Message Guide
Australian Human Rights Commission
https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/2302_F%2BE%20Human%20Rights%20Message%20Guide%20B5_web.pdf - How to talk about human rights, written by Anat Shenker-Osorio
The Commons - Social Change Library
https://commonslibrary.org/how-to-talk-about-human-rights/
This special online session of the Disability Research Community of Practice was co-hosted by the Disability Law Network and supported by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute.