That Australia implements the recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review and establish a comprehensive, judicially enforceable Human Rights Act that incorporates Australia’s obligations under the CRPD and other human rights treaties.
That Australia, in partnership with people with disability through their representative organisations, establishes robust engagement mechanisms for ensuring the meaningful participation in the development and implementation of legislation and policies to implement the present convention and in other decision making processes concerning issues relating to persons with disabilities.
That Australia ensures that representative organisations of people with disability are adequately resourced to effectively participate in implementation and monitoring activities.
That Australia ensures that all people with disability have access to the diversity of independent advocacy supports they need to assert and be accorded their human rights and fundamental freedoms under the CRPD. To establish independence and avoid conflicts of interest, government funded advocacy support should be administered at government level and delivered to people with disabilities by agencies that do not fund, administer or deliver disability services.
That an individual advocacy program owned and managed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People with disability be established and resourced.
