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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Basford Canales, Natasha May and Stephanie Convery

Labor’s disability royal commission response ‘deeply disappointing’, advocates say

The Albanese government will focus on improving job pathways for Australians with disabilities as part of a broad $371m package in response to the harrowing stories that emerged from the royal commission.

But disability representative organisations said the long-awaited joint federal, state and territory response was “deeply disappointing”, and “fails to respond to the scale of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability”.

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