Ask What We Want

People with Disability Australia and the Antipoverty Centre- Ask What We Want: Ensure employment services encourage meaningful work for people with disability

The issues people with disability face finding long-term sustainable employment are
systemic. Our barriers are based in ingrained discrimination in society. Many are the result
of accumulated disadvantage that arise from our experiences of education, high rates of
poverty, inadequate access to healthcare and exclusion from social participation. Employment services cannot overcome these barriers in isolation. This submission is dedicated to identifying the potential for employment services to support us – people with disability – into sustainable open employment in concert with making other necessary policy changes.

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I would give anything to be able to live the life I see other people around
me living, to be the person that our ableist social structures are designed to accommodate. But I’m not. – Anon