History and background to the development of the Premises Standards

• House of Representatives Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry on the draft Premises Standards including Commission submission
• Documents from Australian Building Codes Board
• Draft Standards tabled (2 December 2008) (link to Attorney-General's Department page for the Standards)

• Commission guide to finding your way around the draft standards

• Summary of main changes from the 2004 draft Premises Standards
• Australian Federation of Disability Organisations access to premises page
• Open letter to local government: September 2007
• 2006: An opportunity not to be missed: Opinion piece by Commissioner Graeme Innes, 21 January 2006
• Building Regulation and equitable access - an Australian view: Michael Small, Senior Policy Officer: January 2006
• Effect of draft premises standard on small business: views from Commissioner Ozdowski, October 2005
• ABCB Conference 'Building Australia's Future', September 2005,
  Graeme Innes, Deputy Disability Discrimination Commissioner
• Australian Human Rights Commission submission to Productivity Commission review of building regulation (see submission DR60 on list)
• Australian Human Rights Commission's letter to small business organisations on
  draft premises standards (May 2004)
• Update on progress on access to premises (July 2003)
• Building Regulation and access - an Australian view: Paper prepared July 2003 for UK Centre for Accessible Environments
• Initiatives
  to achieve better access to the built environment:
  Address given by Deputy Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme
  Innes AM to the Queensland Division of the Property Council of Australia
  11 May 2000.