National Inquiry into Employment and Disability

National Inquiry into Employment and Disability

• Inquiry Report released 14 February 2006; see also Executive Summary ; Commission media release

• Report also available in PDF: Workability II - Solutions 2005.pdf (1.4MB file)

Other documents

• Interim Report released 19 August (also available in MS Word zipped 347KB); see also Commission press release

• Interim Report executive summary : also available with interim recommendations and next steps as Issues Paper 6 (MS Word) .

• Terms of reference

• Press releases

• Guide to the inquiry

• Background

• Issues papers

• Roundtables : notes and papers from initial forums conducted as part of this Inquiry

• Employer forum, Brisbane , 22 April and Sydney employer forum 7 July

• NSW EEO Practitioners Association employer forum Sydney 10 October

• First round submissions : list of submissions and links to electronically available submissions made prior to the Interim Report of the Inquiry (updated 21 July 2005)

• Second round submissions : list of submissions and links to electronically available submissions made following the Interim report of the Inquiry (updated 20 October 2005)

• Links

• Speeches

Press releases

• Commission press release announcing inquiry

Issues papers:

• Issues Paper 1: Employment and disability: The statistics

• Issues Paper 2: Employment and disability: The issues for people with a disability

• Issues Paper 3: Employment and disability: The issues for employers

• Issues Paper 4: Employment and disability: Commonwealth Government assistance

• Issues Paper 5: Mapping Commonwealth Government services

• Issues Paper 6: Interim report executive summary; interim recommendations and next steps (MS Word) : see interim report index for HTML versions

Background

• Consultations prior to the inquiry: 2004 request for comments and submissions responding

Links

• Commission website disability and employment page : including links to practical and legal information and resources

• Australian Federation of Disability Organisations

• U.K. Disability Rights Commission employment campaign

Speeches

• People with Disabilities and Productive Diversity within the Australian Public Service 8 June 2005

• DEWR employer roundtable , Melbourne 13 July 2005

Last updated: 14 February 2006