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Employing clients can fix disability care, hearing told

Sam Petersen said people with disabilities should be involved in training support workers. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Placing Australians living with disability in positions of influence over service delivery can address sustained and invisible forms of negligence, a Royal Commission has been told.

Visual artist, writer, performer and wheelchair user Sam Petersen said it was "slow violence" when a person's needs were continually not met over time.

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