Australia news live: Disability royal commission report released; Richard Marles says Taipan helicopters won’t fly again
Commission has spent four and a half years investigating conditions for people with disabilities in schools, workplaces, jails, group homes, hospitals, and day programs
Rishworth won't confirm adoption of any disability royal commission recommendations, ahead of report release
Families and Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth has refused to confirm if the government will be adopting any of the recommendations made in the disability royal commission report ahead of its public release today.
I'm not going to comment on any specific recommendations.
Obviously, we need to also make sure people with disability have choice and control.
You never change a country for the better through fear, you change it through hope and optimism and compassion and justice.
That's what this referendum is about.
This is a body that won't provide funds, that won't run programs, that will just give advice to the government, and that experience of past bodies, and issues that have arisen has been factored in by Indigenous Australians when they've made this request.
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