Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (Q A I) is an independent, community-based systems and legal advocacy organisation for people with disability in Queensland, Australia.
Emma Phillips, QAI’s Deputy Director and Principal Solicitor has written an opinion piece for the Australian Lawyers Alliance on how the Queensland Human Rights Act 2019 (the Act), which commenced on January 1 this year, can assist people with disability. The article goes through the individual human rights protected in
You can find our Quarterly Update newsletter from April 2020 here. Check it out for details on our concerns for people with disability during the COVID-19 public health crisis, new services & new staff!
QAI is one of over 200 organisations which have co-authored and endorsed the Australian Human Rights Scorecard, which was published today by the Human Rights Law Centre, Kingsford Legal Centre and Caxton Legal Centre. The report was prepared ahead of a United Nations Human Rights Council review of Australia,
The Queensland Health, Communities, Disability Services and Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Committee has released their findings and recommendations on voluntary assisted dying. You can read the full report here and the submission QAI made to the Inquiry in April 2019 here. This is a short excerpt from the report: This
Updates: On 14 April the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission sent a letter and a factsheet on restrictive practices in response to our letters. You can view their response here, and the fact sheet here. ______________________ On 27 March 2020 QAI sent a follow up letter on the below, adding several
QAI Management and Staff are, like everyone, trying to do our best to understand and respond to the best of our abilities to the unique risks presented by COVID-19. We are a creative and dynamic organisation and prioritise our commitment to support, defend, protect and promote the needs, rights
In response to the declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, and the resulting escalation of public health measures to slow the spread and impact of this virus, QAI is suspending face-to-face service delivery, effective from close of business Tuesday 17 March 2020. We remain open for business. Staff are
Emma Phillips, QAI’s Deputy director and Principal Solicitor, gave a presentation on February 7th to the Australian Lawyer’s Alliance called “Righting inhuman wrongs – How the new Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) can assist clients with disability and mental illness”. You can view the slides from Emma’s presentation here.
16th January 2020 For immediate release Following today’s report that more than 1200 Australians – including 65 children – have died while waiting for NDIS packages, leading disability advocacy organisation Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (QAI) says urgent reforms are needed to introduce greater accountability for the government agency managing the
23 January 2020 For immediate release Leading disability advocacy organisation Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (QAI) has slammed the report of David Tune’s review into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act. “The recommended timeframes are incredibly disappointing,” says QAI director Michelle O’Flynn. “The major problem that many people with disabilities have