Table of contents executive Summary recommendations 11 Acknowledgements 26 Background 28 methodology 30 Article — general obligations 33

Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act 1912 (NSW) s 21(a); Electoral Act 1992 (Qld) s 64; Electoral Act 1985 (SA) s 29(1)(d); Electoral Act 2001 (Tas) s 31; Electoral Act 1907 (WA) ss 18(1)(a), 18(1)(cd). No such provision exists in Victoria.

610 Roach v Electoral Commissioner [2007] HCA 43 [9] (Gleeson CJ).

611Roach v Electoral Commissioner [2007] HCA 43 [88] (Gummow, Kirby and Crennan JJ).

612 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>.

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

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

615 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>.

616 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.

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

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

619 Ibid 61–2.

620 Ibid 55–6.

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

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

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

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

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

626 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>.

627 Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) s 183.

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

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

630 Ibid.

631 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>.

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

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

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

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

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

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

638 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>.

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

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

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

642 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>.

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

644 Ibid 7.

645 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>.

646 Ibid 4.

647 Ibid 7.

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

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

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

651 Ibid 195.

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

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

654 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.

655 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.

656 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>.

657 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>.

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

659 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>.

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

661 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/>.

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

663 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).

664 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>.