An analysis of the economic impacts of suspending students with disability from school in Queensland. It presents key findings, data sources and an overview of the qualitative impacts considered in the analysis. It finds children with disability are disproportionately represented in school suspensions in Queensland and across Australia.

This paper follows a review of some of the Queensland Government Department of Child Safety’s publicly available policies. It addresses four concerning themes found throughout the policies as well as a break down of some specific issues found in a range of policy documents.

Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) states that people with disability have a right to be supported to make their own decisions. This guide provides practical advice for people when making decisions about accommodation, services, and healthcare. It also provides guidance for people who may be supporting others...

This submission considers the use of restrictive practices as a form of behaviour control are often based on the assumption that the problem lies with the individual rather than the systems that control them, and that the solution lies with a restriction of personal freedoms as opposed to structural change.

This report considers the interface between generalist and specialist community legal centres in Queensland, in an endeavour to identify ways to support Queensland community legal centres to work more effectively together to deliver equitable and accessible specialist legal services in the public interest. In its review of the Legal Practitioner Interest on Trust Account Fund...