Acknowledgements endorsements Background methodology executive Summary 11 Recommendations 22 Article — general obligations 38

Roach v Electoral Commissioner [2007] HCA 43 [88] (Gummow, Kirby and Crennan JJ).

610 People With Disability Australia and NSW Disability Discrimination Legal Centre Inc, Submission: ‘Electoral Reform Green Paper — Strengthening Australia’s Democracy’, Inquiry into 2008 Local Government Elections, 2009, [7.4] <www.ddlcnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/Inquiry%20into%202008%20Local%20
Government%20Elections%20Submission.pdfat>.

611 Submission by attendee at the CRPD Shadow Report consultation in Melbourne, Victoria (16 November 2009).

612 Australian Electoral Commission, ‘Disability Action Plan 2008–2011’ (Plan, AEC, 2007) Appendix 8.

613 Australian Human Rights Commission, The Right to Vote is Not Equally Enjoyed by all Australians (February 2010) <www.hreoc.gov.au/human_rights/vote/index.html#fn12a>.

614 Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, Parliament of Australia, ‘Report on the 2007 Election Electronic Voting Trials: Interim Report of the Inquiry into the Conduct of the 2007 Election and Matters Related Thereto’, 2009, 51.

615 B Mercurio, ‘Discrimination in Electoral Law: Using Technology to Extend the Secret Ballot to Disabled and Illiterate Voters’, (2003) 28 Alternative Law Journal 274.

616 Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, above n Error: Reference source not found.

617 Ibid 61–2.

618 Ibid 55–6.

619 Fittler v NSW Electoral Commission[2008] NSW ADT 116 [42].

620 The Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Close of Rolls and other Amendments) Bill 2010 was tabled in the Australian Senate on 10 March 2010.

621 Senate debates, ‘Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Close of Rolls and Other Measures) Legislation’(2010) .

622 People With Disability Australia and NSW Disability Discrimination Legal Centre, Submission, above n Error: Reference source not found, [7.1].

623 Productivity Commission, ‘Disability Care and Support’, above n Error: Reference source not found, 9.1.

624 Jordana Goodman, Physical Disability Council of NSW, ‘Electoral Reform Green Paper, Strengthening Australia’s Democracy December 2009’ (Repot, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, December 2009) 7 <www.dpmc.gov.au/consultation/elect_reform/strengthening_democracy/pdfs/92%20-%20Physical%20
Disability%20Council%20of%20NSW.pdf>.

625 Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) s 183.

626 Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, above n Error: Reference source not found, 61–2.

627 People With Disability Australia and NSW Disability Discrimination Legal Centre, Submission, above n Error: Reference source not found, [7.1].

628 Ibid.

629 See further Robert Gruhn, Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association of NSW, Submission regarding the development of the Equal Access to Democracy Plan. 9 June 2006 <www.mdaa.org.au/archive/06/mdaa-election.doc>.

630 Electoral Act 1992 (Cth) s 93(8AA).

631 Submission by attendee at the CRPD Shadow Report consultation in Brisbane, Queensland (12 November 2009).

632 Submission by attendee at the CRPD Shadow Report consultation in Brisbane, Queensland (12 November 2009).

633 Cultural Ministers Council, ‘National Arts and Disability Strategy’ (2009) <www.cmc.gov.au/publications/national_arts_and_disability_strategy>.

634 G Wreford, ‘What about the National Arts and Disability Strategy?’, artsHub, April 2011.

635 Council of Australian Governments, National Disability Strategy, above n Error: Reference source not found, 33

636 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Social Participation of People with a Disability (22 June 2011) <www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4439.0main+features42011>.

637 Media Access Australia, Free to Air Television (2011) <http://mediaaccess.org.au/research-policy/australian-access-regulation/television/free-to-air-tv>.

638 Submission by attendee at the CRPD Shadow Report consultation in Adelaide, SA (25 November 2009).

639 CRPD Shadow Report Survey, Submission No 89 (26 March 2010).

640 National Ethnic Disability Alliance, ‘This is My Home: Belonging, Disability and Diversity’ (Report, August 2009) <www.neda.org.au/page/cultural_and_linguistic_inclusion.html>.

641 Arts Access Australia, Submission to the National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy, 2008.

642 Ibid 7.

643 Access for All Alliance, ‘A Survey and Report on the Barriers Confronted by People with Disability when they Travel on Holidays and Visit Tourist Venues’ (Report, 2006) 6 <www.australiaforall.com/Survey%20Files/Pages
%20from%20Finished%20FINAL%20holiday%20notes%20-%20for%20hard%20copy%202%20Part%201.pdf>.

644 Ibid 4.

645 Ibid 7.

646 Submission by attendee at the CRPD Shadow Report consultation in Melbourne, Victoria (16 November 2009).

647 Submission by attendee at the CRPD Shadow Report consultation in Adelaide, SA (25 November 2009).

648 Australian Sports Commission and Department of Health and Ageing, ‘Participation in Exercise, Physical Activity and Sport — Annual Report 2008’ (Report, Australian Government, 2009) 43.

649 Ibid 195.

650 CRPD Shadow Report Survey, Submission No 38 (26 March 2010).

651 Sports Connect — Disability Sector Education Resource Project, ‘First Phase Consultation Report’ (Report, Australian Sports Commission, 2010).

652 United Nations, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ‘Guidelines on Treaty Specific Document to be Submitted by States Parties under Article 35, Paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’, Note by the Secretary-General, 23 October 2009.

653 CEDAW Committee, Concluding Observations (3 February 2006), above n Error: Reference source not found, para 15; Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding Observations: Australia, above n Error: Reference source not found, para 46.

654 Eversely Ruth and Harry Picket, ‘Carers Research Project Report: Supporting CALD Carers — The Service Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Carers of People with Disability’ (Report, Ethnic Disability Advocacy Centre, 2003) <www.edac.org.au/carersreport.html>.

655 Keran Howe and Sue Salthouse, ‘Lack of Data Means Lack of Action — A Clinical Examination of Access to Health Services for Women with Disabilities’ (Presentation to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, National Summit, Sydney, 28 May 2004) <www.wwda.org.au/hreocsumm.htm>.

656 AusAID, ‘Development for All: Towards a Disability-Inclusive Australian Aid Program 2009–2014’ (Report, Australian Government, 2008) 13.

657 Australian Government, ‘New Initiative: Disability — Fair Development Accessible to All, Priorities for Australia’s International Development Assistance’ (Ministerial Statements, 2010) <www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/ministerial_statements/AusAID/html/ms_AusAID-04.htm>.

658 Council of Australian Governments, National Disability Strategy, above n Error: Reference source not found, 67

659 The Australian Human Rights Commission comprises Australia’s national human rights institution and meets the requirements of the ‘Paris Principles’. See <http://www.hreoc.gov.au/>.

660 Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission, above n Error: Reference source not found, 41.

661 It is suggested the CRPD is directly incorporated into Australian law by way of schedule to a national Bill of Rights, provided the Bill of Rights is fully enforceable and supported by monitoring mechanisms surrounding the CRPD : Phillip French, ‘Final Report to the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, and the Attorney-General: Consultations with Australian Representative Organisations Governed by Persons with Disability, Disability Advisory Councils, and the Disability Legal Services Network on the Impact of Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ (Report, Disability Studies and Research Institute for The Australian Task Force on CRPD Ratification, 2008).

662 Australian Human Rights Commission, ‘National Human Rights Institutions and National implementation and monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ (Paper, Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, 2007) <www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/convention/apf07.htm>.

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