by QAI | Jul 31, 2024 | Media Release, News, QAI in the Media
On Wednesday 31st July 2024, ten months after the publication of the Disability Royal Commission’s final report, the Federal and State Governments issued their response to the Disability Royal Commission’s 222 recommendations. QAI’s CEO, Matilda...
by QAI | Jul 26, 2024 | News, Report, Research
As part of our role leading the A Right to Learn campaign, QAI commissioned an analysis of the economic impacts of suspending students with disability from school. Our key findings were: In 2023, Queensland disabled students were denied over 107,000 days of education...
by QAI | Jul 25, 2024 | News
You may have seen The Guardian article “Queensland failed to act on report into ‘devastating’ experiences of people with disability in justice system”. We have received a copy of the report “Insights from people with lived experience of disability in...
by QAI | Jun 12, 2024 | News, Publication
We have joined with Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN) to write an open letter to the Queensland Premier, Stephen Miles. The letter urges the Queensland Government to introduce changes to the outdated Anti-Discrimination Act before the election later this...
by QAI | Mar 28, 2024 | News, Paper
While we do not practice law in the area of child protection, through the course of our disability advocacy work in child protection matters, we noticed that the guidance relied on for decision making in child protection matters is discriminatory and is likely...
by QAI | Dec 20, 2023 | News, Submission
We made a submission to the Office of the Public Guardian on their Supported Decison-Making publication. In our submission we discuss why supported decision-making is important and our approach to it as an organsation, as well as some client stories of supported...
