Involvement of People with Disability and their Representative and Advocacy Organisations (Articles 4 & 33)
Australia has failed to effectively involve people with disability and their organisations at all stages of planning, implementation and monitoring the implementation of the CRPD. This is a critical and underpinning element of compliance with the CRPD and jeopardises all current efforts to respond to human rights breaches and policy gaps in relation to full inclusion of Australians with disability.
Australia must establish a robust mechanism and provide adequate resourcing to enable an effective and representative voice for people with disability and their organisations in planning, monitoring and implementation of the CRPD.
All Australian governments — federal, state and territory — must provide adequate resourcing to ensure that individuals with disability have access to the advocacy support they need to assert and be accorded their CRPD rights and fundamental freedoms.
