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Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act review
Across 2025 and 2026 the Queensland Civil and Adminsitrative Tribunal (QCAT) Act was placed under its regular 5-yearly review. As our Human Rights service supports many Queenslanders with their Guardianship and Adminsitration orders, the lived experiences of our...
Commonwealth Budget 2026-27
We made a submission to the Commonwealth Government ahead of the federal budget for the 2026-2027 financial year. While they are still working on the budget before announcing it in May, we urged them to invest more in disability advocacy and supports for people with...
Joint Statement on new federal hate speech laws
QAI joined with 9 other other disability organisations, including People with Disability Australia (PWDA), to released a joint statement responding to the passage of the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026 (Cth). While...
2025 Review of the Disability Standards for Education
The Disability Standards for Education were designed to clarify the obligations of education providers under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) and to give practical effect to Australia’s commitments under the CRPD, particularly Article 24 on inclusive...
Solutions instead of suspensions: what’s already working in Qld schools?
Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025Time: 6pm - 7:15pmLocation: Online via Zoom Event Details Please join us this International Day of People with Disability as we discuss the practical solutions already being used across Queensland to make education safe, accessible and...
State data reveals right to learn denied to disabled students
Every child has a right to learn and belong in their classroom, but state data reveals that right is denied to disabled studentsThe data reveals a systemic failure - Queensland schools are suspending students with disability at alarming rates and it’s getting worse....
Expressions of Interest open to attend UN CoSP in 2026
Expressions of Interest are now open for Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion (QAI) to support your application to attend the 19th Session of the Conference of States Parties (CoSP19) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) at the United...
LGBTIQA+SB Pilot Project Report
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Sistergirl, and Brotherboy (LGBTQIA+SB) people with disability continue to face significant barriers to accessing disability advocacy, despite the clear need. In October 2024, QAI received funding from the...
NDIS Supports Rules
QAI made a submission to the Department of Social Service's consultation on the NDIS Supports Rules. The transitional NDIS Support rules have reduced flexibility and choice and control for participants. They have made some people with disability fearful to purchase...
Assistance Animal National Principles
QAI made a submission to the Department of Social Services regarding proposed Assistance Animal National Principles. There is great confusion within the Australian community as to what constitutes an assistance animal and what the rights are of people with disability...
Restrictive Practices Procedure Review
QAI made a submission to the Queensland Department of Education's Restrictive Practices Procedure Review. Read our submission here: Submission - PDF Submission - Word
Education (General Provisions) Amendment Bill 2025
QAI made a submission to the Education, Arts and Communities Committee on the Education (General Provisions) Amendment Bill 2025. QAI supports the amendment enabling principals to delegate the function of telling students about suspension decisions to another...
Review of the Charter of Victims’ Rights
QAI provided feedback on the Office of the Victims' Commissioner's review of the Charter of Victim's Rights. As an organisation dedicated to advocating for individuals with disability, we believe this review represents a crucial opportunity to strengthen the...
Voices for change! *Online* April 14
Date: Monday 14 April 2025Time: 10:00am - 11:00pmLocation: Online via Zoom Event Details Our next Voices for Change event is all about people with disability finding and using their own voice for change! We are excited to announce we will have 3 of our members with...
Voices for change! April 11
Date: Friday 11 April 2025Time: 11:30am - 1:00pmLocation: Gambaro Room at Common Ground, 15 Hope St, South Brisbane (Meanjin) Event Details Our next Voices for Change event is all about people with disability finding and using their own voice for change! We are...
Hate won’t wait – don’t delay anti-discrimination reforms
Media Release For immediate release 25/03/2025 This morning a group of disability advocacy organisations called on Queensland’s LNP Government to scrap their plan to delay implementation of long-awaited reforms to our Anti-Discrimination Act. This comes after...
QAI’s recommendations for law reform
QAI wrote a submission to the Queensland Law Reform Commission (QLRC) in response to their call for recommended topics that require law reform in Queensland. QAI recommended the following topics: 1. Section 216 of Queensland’s Criminal Code2. Legislative framework for...
Adult Crime, Adult Time
QAI wrote to the Expert Legal Panel regarding the proposal to include additional offences under Queensland's Adult Crime, Adult Time legislation. QAI urged the panel not to include additional offences under the legislation. The legislation goes against best practice,...
Disability and Natural Disasters
With Cyclone Alfred approaching the coast of Queensland, we wanted to gather some resources that cover the rights of people with disability during natural disasters, and can help with being prepared for when a disaster hits. Natural Disasters, disability and the law...
Rethinking Suspensions: Inclusion for disabled students
Date: Thursday 20 February 2025Time: 6pm - 7pmLocation: Online via Zoom Event Details In November 2023, the A Right to Learn campaign commissioned research on the economic impacts of disproportionate school disciplinary absences on students with disabilities. It found...
100-day Review of Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games Infrastructure
QAI made a submission to the 100-day Review of Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games Infrastructure. Read our letter here: Letter - PDF Letter - Word
Voices for change! December 2024
Date: Thursday 12 December 2024Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pmLocation: Gambaro Room at Common Ground, 15 Hope St, South Brisbane (Meanjin) OR online (those who select an "attend online" ticket will be emailed the Zoom link on the morning of the event) Event Details Join us for...
Making Queensland Safer Bill 2024
QAI unequivocally rejects the Making Queensland Safer Bill 2024. This Bill will disproportionately and negatively impact children and young people with disability who are already significantly overrepresented in the criminal justice system. The changes proposed by...
Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system
In September 2024, the Federal Senate agreed to establish a National inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system. The inquiry has been referred to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee. QAI made a submission to the inquiry,...
NDIS Supports list
QAI and QIDAN (the Queensland Independent Disability Advocacy Network) made a joint submission to the Department of Social Servicest regarding the draft list of NDIS Supports. The list of items participants cannot use their funding for is overly prescriptive, will...
Indefinite detention and solitary confinement: the awful reality of Queensland’s Forensic Disability Service
Position statement Queensland’s Forensic Disability Service (FDS) is meant to provide skills training and other programs to people under forensic orders so that they can live back in the community. However, some residents are held indefinitely and are kept in cruel...
Government response to Disability Royal Commission
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 Alexander, attended a...
Economic costs of suspending students with disability from school
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...
UQ Report on People with Disability in Justice System
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 the justice...
Easy English for financial administration orders
These fact sheets are Easy English. They are for you if a person makes money choices for you you want to change who it is you want to make your own money choices Click or tap the links below to open the fact sheets. What is QCAT? - PDF What is QCAT? - Word A...