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The Case for Action
Disability & Accessibility
  1. Australian Human Rights Commission, “Disability Action Plan Guide”, 6 December 2021, https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/disability-rights/publications/disability-action-plan-guide-2021/.
  2. Australian Human Rights Commission, Disability Action Plan Guide, 2021, https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/document/publication/ahrc_disability_action_plan_guide_2021_0.pdf.
  3. Diversity Council Australia (R. D’Almada-Remedios, A. Kaabel, and J. OLeary), Inclusive Recruitment: How to Tap into Australia’s Overlooked and Underleveraged Talent, Sydney, Diversity Council Australia, 2022, https://www.dca.org.au/research/inclusive-recruitment-work.
  4. Australian Human Rights Commission, “9 Barriers to employment”, n.d., https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/9-barriers-employment.
  5. Australian Disability Network, The business case for disability employment targets: Guidelines for setting and achieving targets to increase the employment of people with disability, AusDN, 2023, https://australiandisabilitynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/final-business-report.pdf, p. 11.
  6. Australian Disability Network, The business case for disability employment targets: Guidelines for setting and achieving targets to increase the employment of people with disability, AusDN, 2023, https://australiandisabilitynetwork.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/final-business-report.pdf.
  7. Australian Human Rights Commission, Guidelines for the targeted recruitment of people with disability, AHRC, 2022, https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/disability-rights/publications/guidelines-targeted-recruitment-people-disability-2022.
  8. Australian Human Rights Commission, Guidelines for the targeted recruitment of people with disability, AHRC, 2022, https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/disability-rights/publications/guidelines-targeted-recruitment-people-disability-2022, p. 10.
  9. Australian Human Rights Commission, Guidelines for the targeted recruitment of people with disability, AHRC, 2022, https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/disability-rights/publications/guidelines-targeted-recruitment-people-disability-2022, p. 23.
  10. Job Access, “Supporting staff to disclose disability”, https://www.jobaccess.gov.au/employers/supporting-staff-disclose-disability.
  11. Job Access, “Supporting staff to disclose disability”, https://www.jobaccess.gov.au/employers/supporting-staff-disclose-disability.
  12. Disability Discrimination Act 1992, https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018C00125.
  13. P. Gray, “Disclosure of disability in the Australian Public Service: What the statistics tell us”, Australian Journal of Career Development, vol. 29, no. 1, 3-11, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1038416219843620.
  14. NSW Public Service Commission, Disability Disclosure Research Project, 2021, https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/2022-05/NSW.9999.0053.0001.pdf.
  15. NSW Public Service Commission, Disability Disclosure Research Project, 2021, https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/2022-05/NSW.9999.0053.0001.pdf.
  16. Australian Human Rights Commission, “Reasonable Adjustments”, n.d., AHRC, https://humanrights.gov.au/quick-guide/12084.
  17. Job Access, Reasonable adjustment, n.d., https://www.jobaccess.gov.au/sites/default/files/2.4%20Reasonable%20adjustments.pdf.
  18. Job Access, Understanding workplace attitudes toward disability, 2023, https://www.jobaccess.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/12_2023/understanding-workplace-attitudes-toward-people-disability.pdf.
  19. Victoria Public Service Commission, “Data Insights: Becoming a better workplace for people with disabilities”, 19 December 2016, https://vpsc.vic.gov.au/data-and-rReesearch/past-releases/data-insights-becoming-better-workplace-people-disabilities/.
  20. Job Access, Understanding workplace attitudes toward disability, 2023, https://www.jobaccess.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/12_2023/understanding-workplace-attitudes-toward-people-disability.pdf.
  21. Job Access, Understanding workplace attitudes toward disability, 2023, https://www.jobaccess.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/12_2023/understanding-workplace-attitudes-toward-people-disability.pdf.
  22. Disability IN, “Centralized Reasonable Accommodations Fund”, 23 January 2020, https://disabilityin.org/resource/centralized-reasonable-accommodations-fund/.
  23. Job Access, “Flexible work arrangements”, 6 March 2019, https://www.jobaccess.gov.au/node/77786.
  24. Job Access, Understanding workplace attitudes toward disability, 2023, https://www.jobaccess.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/12_2023/understanding-workplace-attitudes-toward-people-disability.pdf.
  25. R. Bosua and M. Gloet, "Access to Flexible Work Arrangements for People With Disabilities", Anywhere Working and the Future of Work, M. Gloet, and Y. Blount, (eds.), 1 ed., IGI Global, 2021, pp. 134-161, https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/scholarlywork/1597715-access-to-flexible-work-arrangements-for-people-with-disabilities.
  26. Fair Work Ombudsman, “Flexible working arrangements for employees with disability”, 25 October 2023, “https://www.fairwork.gov.au/newsroom/news/flexible-working-arrangements-employees-disability.
  27. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Job Design, 12 June 2023, https://www.cipd.org/en/knowledge/factsheets/job-design-factsheet/.
  28. NSW Public Service Commission, “The Age of Inclusion: Manager’s Guide to Career Development and Managing Performance of People with Disability”, https://www.psc.nsw.gov.au/assets/psc/documents/Managers-guide-to-career-development-and-managing-performance-of-people-with-disability_V2-PDF.pdf.
  29. IncludeAbility, Customising a job for a person with disability, 2021, AHRC, https://includeability.gov.au/resources-employers/customising-job-person-disability.
  30. Australian Disability Network, “Quick guide to Employee Resource Groups”, n.d., ADN, https://and.org.au/news-and-events/quick-guide-to-employee-resource-groups-find-out-how-attitudes-are-a-barrier-to-inclusion-plus-vpscs-wellbeing-support/.
  31. IncludeAbility, “Establishing a Disability Employee Network”, https://includeability.gov.au/resources-employers/establishing-disability-employee-network.
  32. Australian Federation of Disability Organisations, “What does ‘disability confident’ mean?”, n.d., https://www.afdo.org.au/what-does-disability-confident-mean/.
  33. The Information Access Group, “The importance of recognising Auslan as a first language”, https://www.informationaccessgroup.com/news//Auslan_as_a_first_language.html.
  34. The Information Access Group, “The importance of recognising Auslan as a first language”, https://www.informationaccessgroup.com/news//Auslan_as_a_first_language.html.
  35. Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training, “Inclusive and Accessible Events on Campus or Online, n.d., https://www.adcet.edu.au/disability-practitioner/your-role/inclusive-and-accessible-events.
  36. IncludeAbility, Creating an accessible and inclusive workplace, 2021, AHRC, https://includeability.gov.au/resources-employers/creating-accessible-and-inclusive-workplace.
  37. Australian Disability Network, “Designing an accessible workplace”, n.d., ADN, https://australiandisabilitynetwork.org.au/resources/designing-an-accessible-workplace-test/.
  38. Digital.NSW, “Accessibility Basics”, n.d., https://www.digital.nsw.gov.au/delivery/accessibility-and-inclusivity-toolkit/accessibility-basics.
  39. World Health Organization, “Assistive Technology: Key Facts”, 15 May 2023, https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/assistive-technology.
  40. UC Berkeley, “Types of assistive technology”, n.d., https://dap.berkeley.edu/types-assistive-technology.
  41. UC Berkeley, “Types of assistive technology”, n.d., https://dap.berkeley.edu/types-assistive-technology.
  42. M. McDonnall, “Digital inaccessibility: Blind and low-vision people have powerful technology but still face barriers to the digital world”, The Conversation, 20 December 2023, https://theconversation.com/digital-inaccessibility-blind-and-low-vision-people-have-powerful-technology-but-still-face-barriers-to-the-digital-world-212600.