Position statements and speeches

Message from the Public Advocate: Announcing my retirement

Statement to the Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS: Inquiry into Capability and Culture of the NDIA

Position statement: Right to tell one’s own story

OPA supports the calls of people with experience of being under guardianship or administration to be allowed to share their own stories publicly and without undue constraints

Evidence to Disability Royal Commission's hearing on homelessness

Position statement: Signing residential aged care facilities' advance care planning documentation

Advocate/Guardians at OPA are instructed not to sign any RACF documentation which purports to be a ‘Not for Resuscitation’ decision as this would be beyond their legal authority.

Statement to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission hearing

It is extremely difficult for people with cognitive disability or people with a mental illness or psychosocial disability to make a complaint, particularly where they are in the criminal or civil justice systems.

Position statement: Promoting the health of people with disability during the pandemic

OPA endorses the use of human rights-based frameworks for decision-making, highlighting the importance of supported decision-making principles and practices.

Position statement: NDIS Independent Assessments

The Office of the Public Advocate stands with the disability advocacy sector in requesting that the NDIA reconsider its proposal to introduce independent assessments.

COVID-19: A message to People with Disability

Like many aspects of our society, the current COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affects people with disability.