Resources
Help yourself!
Understanding What’s Reasonable and Necessary
Using Reasonable and Necessary Framework
Guide for Support workers [independent contractors] Getting Paid
Guide for Gardeners, Cleaners and Household Maintenance workers Getting Paid
How to make a Health Service Complaint
National Code Of Conduct for Healthcare Workers
Consumers Rights and Responsibilities in relationship to Counselling
ACL Factsheet Information for consumers with disability
Advocacy Contacts
National Disability Organisations
- Australian Centre for Disability Law – disabilitylaw.org.au
- Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) – www.afdo.org.au
- Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia (A4) – a4.org.au
- Blind Citizens Australia – bca.org.au
- Brain Injury Australia – braininjuryaustralia.org.au
- Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) – cyda.org.au
- Deaf Australia – deafaustralia.org.au
- Deafness Forum of Australia – deafnessforum.org.au
- Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) – dana.org.au
- First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN) – fpdn.org.au
- Human Rights Council of Australia – hrca.org.au
- Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS) – idrs.org.au
- Mental Health Australia – mhaustralia.org
- National Council on Intellectual Disability (NCID) – ncid.org.au
- National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) – neda.org.au
- People with Disability Australia – pwd.org.au
- Physical Disability Australia (PDA) – pda.org.au
- Short Statured People of Australia – sspa.org.au
- The Autistic Self Advocacy Network of Australia and New Zealand – www.asan-au.org
- Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) – wwda.org.au
Queensland
- Amparo Advocacy – amparo.org.au
- Gold Coast Advocacy – gca.org.au
- Independent Advocacy Townsville – independentadvocacy.org.au
- Mackay Advocacy – mackayadvocacy.com.au
- Queensland Advocacy – qai.org.au
- Queensland Aged & Disability Advocacy – qada.org.au
- Queenslanders with Disabilities (QDN) – qdn.org.au
- Rights in Action, Cairns FNQ – rightsinaction.org
- Speaking Up for You – sufy.org.au
- Sunshine Coast Citizen Advocacy Program – citizenadvocacy.com
New South Wales
- Ability Incorporated Advocacy Service (AIAS NSW) – abilityincorporated.org.au
- Aboriginal Disability Network NSW (ADN NSW) – adnnsw.org.au
- Action for People with Disability Inc – actionadvocacy.org.au
- Association of Blind Citizens of NSW – asnblind-nsw.org.au
- Australian Centre for Disability Law – disabilitylaw.org.au
- Brain Injury Association of NSW (BIA) – biansw.org.au
- Central Coast Disability Network – ccdn.com.au
- Deaf Society of NSW – deafsocietynsw.org.au
- Disability & Aged Information Service Inc – daisi.asn.au
- Disability Advocacy & Information Service (DAIS) – dais.org.au
- Disability Advocacy NSW (DA) – da.org.au
- Disability Information Advocacy Service (DIAS) – dias.net.au
- Family Advocacy – family-advocacy.com
- Illawarra Advocacy – illawarraadvocacy.org.au
- Indigenous Disability Advocacy Service (IDAS) – idas.org.au
- Information on Disability & Education Awareness Services (IDEAS) – ideas.org.au
- Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS) – idrs.org.au
- Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association (MDAA) – mdaa.org.au
- NSW Council for Intellectual Disability – nswcid.org.au
- NSW Disability Advocacy Network – ndan.org.au
- Penrith Disabilities Resource Centre – pdrc.org.au
- People With Disability Australia (PWDA) – pwd.org.au
- Physical Disability Council of NSW (PDCN) – pdcnsw.org.au
- Regional Disability Advocacy Service – rdas.org.au
Self Advocacy Sydney Inc – sasinc.com.au - Side by Side Advocacy Inc – sidebysideadvocacy.org.au
- Spinal Cord Injuries Australia (SCIA) – scia.org.au