Castan Centre for Human Rights Law

Tag: Disability

  • This is how educating kids with disability must change

    This is how educating kids with disability must change

    By Marius Smith Today we are launching our findings from an exhaustive investigation into the education of children with disability in Victoria’s mainstream government schools. How we are failing children with disability Based on almost 100 interviews with parents, former students, school staff and others, as well as a detailed review of relevant laws and policies,…

  • Guest Post: “Nothing About Us Without Us”: National Responses to the CRPD Six Years On

    The 2014 Castan Centre/Mallesons Annual Lecture – paper delivered by Professor Emeritus Ron Mccallum AO 1. Introduction Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is indeed a huge honour for me to deliver this annual human rights lecture named for Ron Castan QC. I met Ron on several occasions, but we never conversed at any length. I…

  • Hurting the most vulnerable: the Disability Discrimination Act does not apply to immigration law

    By Adam Fletcher I have already written on this blog about religious exemptions to the various federal anti‑discrimination laws, but there is another exemption which gets less coverage than it deserves. Section 52 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) says that the Act does not ‘affect discriminatory provisions in,’ or ‘render unlawful anything that…

  • Jeopardising access to justice for people experiencing mental illness

    Guest Blogger: Catherine Leslie, Mental Health Legal Centre For many people with mental health issues in Australia, infringements on human rights and inequality are everyday lived experiences through forced psychiatric treatment and detention and restrictions on their ability to manage their own affairs.  The many social and economic disadvantages they encounter mean that free independent…