This position statement offers recommendations to guide the Australian Government's transition to a new human rights-based needs assessment model. It urges policymakers and stakeholders to embed human rights, co-design and trusted relationships at the centre of this reform. It makes a series of recommendations for implementation.

This study explores the challenges faced by Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) women and girls with disabilities in accessing vital support systems.

This submission argues that women and girls with disability experience sexual and reproductive violence across their lives in relation to menstruation and reproduction, sexual identity and expression, intimate relationships, pregnancy, and parenting, and that this topic has been largely neglected since the Royal Commission commenced in April 2019.

This submission specifically draws attention to the issues relevant to people with disability in the UN's Draft General Comment of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT), which does not yet explicitly discuss the unique factors which underpin and shape the deprivation of liberty and treatment of people with disability.

This report's findings emphasise the prevalence of violence and abuse in young people’s lives, along with the inadequacy of institutional responses to violence against young women and non-binary people.