That the Attorney-General’s Department and the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs take urgent action to consult with people with disability through their representative and advocacy organisations about the establishment of an effective and independent monitoring mechanism for progressing both the National Disability Strategy and implementation of the CRPD in Australia.
That Australia establishes a National Disability Commission and National Disability Research Institute as part of Australia’s framework for promoting and monitoring implementation of the CRPD.660 These institutions should work in cooperation with other elements of Australia’s implementation and monitoring framework with all its capacities, powers and duties underpinned by the CRPD.
That Australia directly incorporates the CRPD into Australian law,661 by the introduction of a Bill of Rights; a provision incorporating CRPD into law; or, specific incorporation or translation of Article 4 obligations into domestic law. (See Article 5)
That Australia examines its framework to promote, protect and monitor the implementation of the CRPD by ensuring the framework carries out a strategic rather than purely informational role, including monitoring the transformation of major social structures to ensure current and future levels of compliance with the CRPD; and examining the need for any additional measures to ensure compliance with the CRPD in areas that fall outside the direct responsibility of national human rights institutions.662
That Australia adequately resources disability representative, advocacy and legal organisations to participate in the implementation and monitoring of CRPD.
