Disability In Australia

People living with disability most likely doesn’t get much chance to earn money and usually have more medical expenses. The disabilities of children and adults affects the socio-economy of entire family. Due to their illness and disability, most of the organization do not hire people with disability in their workplace. According to the Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers in 2009, people with disability of age 15-64 years looking for work, the most reported difficulty to find work was their own poor health or disability (35%). They were facing difficulty also of their lack of the essential skills or education (13%). Likewise, people with disability who apply for work, doesnot get employed as their long-term illness or injury was the main

281). The National Disability Strategy 2010-2020 is one of the government 10 years planning of initiative focusing on people with disability to participate in every form of life same as all other Australians. As mentioned by Thill, (2015, p. 22), it is the first time in history that all governments of Australia which are federal, State and local have agreed upon the national approach to undertake work on all six areas of national disability strategy to support rights and protection, learning and skill, personal support, health and wellbeing of people living with disabilities. NDIS was also one of those approach which was first introduced in trail basis in different region of the country and now running successfully. Australian government and political parties have a long history of supporting the rights and different sectors of disabilities. The first commonwealth state territory disability agreement 1991, parallel state and territory legislation, Development of national disability strategy and ratified with UN CRPD are some of the big positive changes that the government had made for improvement in their