Media releases

Due to the ongoing nature of the current COVID-19 restrictions, including the extended lockdown in Greater Sydney, the Disability Royal Commission has decided that Public hearing 19 will be further postponed until November 2021.

The Disability Royal Commission has prepared a summary of responses from First Nations people with disability and their representative organisations in its “Overview of responses to the Experience of First Nations People with Disability in Australia issues paper”, which is published today.

The Royal Commission has today published a research report on ‘Legislation and regulation in Australia: Children and young people with disability in primary and secondary education settings’.

Due to the ongoing nature of the current COVID-19 restrictions on movement and travel, the Disability Royal Commission has decided that Public hearing 19, scheduled to take place in Melbourne from 28 July to 3 August, will be postponed until later in August 2021.

The Disability Royal Commission has decided that public hearing 15, scheduled to take place in Brisbane on 23 and 24 June, will be postponed until August 2021.

Chair of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, Ronald Sackville AO QC, is delighted to announce the appointment of Queensland doctor and lawyer Dinesh Palipana OAM as the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Senior Adviser to the Disability Royal Commission.

The Royal Commission has today released its report into the sixth public hearing ‘Psychotropic medication, behaviour support and behaviours of concern’.

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability will hold its fourteenth public hearing in Adelaide from 7-11 June. It will be the second in a series of Royal Commission hearings to examine how disability service providers prevent and respond to violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability.

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability wishes to thank The Honourable Roslyn Atkinson AO for her outstanding contribution to the work of the Royal Commission.

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has welcomed today’s announcement by the Australian Government granting its request for an extension of time to deliver its Final Report.