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Systemic advocacy

Giving you a voice in policy development

About systemic advocacy

ADA regularly engages with both consumers and providers of aged care, disability and guardianship services. This ongoing engagement helps inform our understanding of the service and system issues impacting on consumers.

As a consumer advocacy organisation, we aim to raise awareness of these issues and ensure the consumer experience is considered in all key policy decisions. The development of policy submissions is just one of the methods we use to promote the consumer voice at a systemic level.

ADA Australia prepares policy submissions on a range of important topics. Below are some of the policy submissions recently prepared by the ADA Australia team.

Our submissions

Click the below links to view the submissions:
  • A new model for regulating Aged Care | Consultation Paper 1
  • Submission to Queensland Parliament’s Health and Environment Committee on the Public Health and Other Legislation (COVID-19 Management) Amendment Bill 2022
  • Submission to Senate Standing Committees on the Aged Care Amendment (Implementing Care Reform) Bill 2022
  • Review of the Guardianship and Administration Regulation 2012
  • Review of the National Disability Advocacy Framework 2022-2025
  • Criminal Procedure Review – Magistrates Court
  • Independent Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence
  • Submission to Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce Discussion Paper 3 – Women and girls’ experience of the criminal justice system as victims-survivors of sexual violence and also as accused persons and offenders
  • Review of Queensland’s Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 Inquiry into the opportunities to improve mental health outcomes for Queenslanders
  • Review of the Statement of Choices
  • Review of the Authorisation Framework for the use of restrictive practices in NDIS and particular disability service settings in Queensland
Click the below links to view the submissions:
  • Inquiry into the provision of primary, allied, and private health care, aged care and NDIS care services and its impact on the Queensland public health system
  • National Legal Assistance Partnership Strategy and Action Plan Project
  • Review of the operation and efficacy of the serious violent offenses scheme in the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld)Submission to Queensland Parliament’s Community Support and Services Committee on the Public Trustee (Advisory and Monitoring Board) Amendment Bill 2021
  • Submission to Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs on the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No.2) Bill 2021Submission to Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Scheme on general issues around implementation and performance of the NDIS and current scheme implementation and forecasting for the NDIS
  • Submission to NDIS Act Review Consultations Department of Social Services regarding NDIS Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Amendments) Bill 2021
  • Submission to Queensland Parliament’s Community Support and Services Committee on social isolation and loneliness in QueenslandSubmission to Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) Consultation Team, Australian Department of Health on the expansion of SIRS for Commonwealth funded in-home aged care services
  • Submission to Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce Discussion Paper 2 Women and girls’ experience of the criminal justice system
  • Submission to Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce Discussion Paper 1 Options for legislating against coercive control and the creation of standalone domestic violence offence
  • Submission to the Disability Royal Commission about the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability
  • Submission to the Australian Attorney-General’s Department regarding proposed National Register of Enduring Powers of Attorney
  • Submission to the Queensland Parliament’s Health and Environment Committee on the proposed Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021

Resources

Read more about ADA Australia’s systemic advocacy work

Annual report 2022-2023

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ADA Australia offer a large collection of resources. Go to ADA Australia Resources

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