This strategy responds to the National Disability Strategy (NDS) that was launched in February 2011. A key policy objective of the NDS is to improve the workforce participation of people with a disability across Australia.

This report outlines current problems with the Disability Support Pension and offers three approaches for its reform.

The National Disability Strategy sets out a ten year national plan for improving life for Australians with disability, their families and carers. The Strategy draws on the findings of extensive consultation conducted in 2008-09 by the National People with Disabilities and Carer Council.’

The purpose of this study was to answer the question 'what would it take' to enable employers to employ people with a disability. Based on focus groups with employers from small-to-medium enterprises, the research found that, while employers were quite positive about employing a person with a disability, they lacked confidence in dealing with disability...

This discussion paper is part of a federal government review of employment services, including the Job Network and Disability Employment Network.