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Victorian Mental Health Services

Department of Health and Aged Care website‘Supported Decision-Making in Victoria’The mental health navigation guide is for disability providers and workers and has been collated to guide navigation...

NDS Member Exclusive DRC Webinar: Client experience and meaningful engagement for design

This member exclusive webinar on Client experience and meaningful engagement for design, focuses on Yooralla’s experiences and how the lessons they learnt are being put into practice.

National Disability Awards Nominees

The National Disability Awards recognise workers, teams and organisations who show excellence, passion, vision and commitment to supporting people with disability.

Member Webcast: Lessons from the Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse from Robert Fitzgerald AM

Robert Fitzgerald giving a speech

In response to popular demand, we are sharing an NDS member-only webcast of the presentation delivered at our recent CEO Meeting by Robert Fitzgerald AM, Commissioner and Member of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Robert delivered the Kenneth Jenkins Oration, titled "Lessons from the Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse", to an audience of more than 600 senior leaders at the conference.

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Robert spoke eloquently and honestly about his experiences at the Royal Commission of cases of sexual abuse involving people with disability. He also spoke about preventing and responding to cases of abuse, and the organisational implications of the new NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework. 

Robert Fitzgerald AM is a Commissioner with the Productivity Commission and was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for five years. He was first appointed as a full time Commissioner with the Productivity Commission in January 2004. Prior to that, he was the NSW Community and Disability Services Commissioner and Deputy Ombudsman. 

He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1994.

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