Whilst Australia collects statistics and data in a variety of ways, this data is largely not disaggregated or available to inform policy.
Australia must develop consistent approaches to the collection of data disaggregated by disability type and other demographic information including gender, age, geographic location, Indigenous status, ethnicity, and cultural background.
International Cooperation and Development (Article 32)
Australia has made a positive and significant investment of funding to support integrated international development programs. However, there needs to be more emphasis on encouraging Australian people with disability and their organisations to play a leadership role in this process and resourcing to enable them to establish links and connections with disabled person’s organisations (DPOs) in developing nations.
This report calls on Australia to resource leadership and participation by people with disability to have direct links with people with disability and their organisations in other developing nations.
National Implementation and Monitoring (Article 33)
Whilst Australia has established implementation and monitoring mechanisms for the CRPD, these have been established largely without the involvement of people with disability. The ongoing monitoring of the CRPD remains problematic with only tokenistic involvement of people with disability in the process.
Australia must involve and adequately resource people with disability through their representative and advocacy organisations in all aspects of the implementation and monitoring processes of the CRPD.
