The Case for Action

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Overview
Leading Practice
  1. National People with Disabilities and Carer Council, SHUT OUT: The Experience of People with Disabilities and their Families in Australia, Department of Social Services, 2012, https://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/disability-and-carers/publications-articles/policy-research/shut-out-the-experience-of-people-with-disabilities-and-their-families-in-australia?HTML.
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  7. L. Henneborn and C. Jerdee, Enabling Change: Getting to Equal 2020: Disability Inclusion, Accenture, 2020, https://www.accenture.com/content/dam/accenture/final/a-com-migration/pdf/pdf-89/accenture-disability-inclusion-research-report.pdf.
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  10. DJG Dwertmann, B. Goštautaitė, R. Kazlauskaitė, and I. Bučiūnienė, “Receiving Service from a Person with a Disability: Stereotypes, Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Opportunity for Increased Corporate Reputation”, Academy of Management Journal, vol. 66, no. 1: 2023, https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amj.2020.0084.
  11. AAPD and Disability:In, Getting to Equal: The Disability Inclusion Advantage, Accenture, 2018, https://www.accenture.com/content/dam/accenture/final/a-com-migration/pdf/pdf-89/accenture-disability-inclusion-research-report.pdf.
  12. Deloitte Access Economics, Increasing Employment for People with Disability, Deloitte, 2011.