Disability reform chance squandered, say advocates

Disability commissioner Rosemary Kayess says the government's response has no plan for action. (HANDOUT/UNIVERSITY OF NSW)

Stronger commitments need to be shown to Australians with disabilities, a discrimination commissioner says, as the federal government fends off accusations of missing a chance to enact urgent reform.

The government has outlined what steps it would take following the disability royal commission's final report, but said it would only implement 13 of the 222 recommendations in full.