If you or anyone you know needs help
- Lifeline: 13 11 14
- MensLine: 1300 789 978
- Kids Helpline: 1800 551 800
- 1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732
- National Disability Abuse and Neglect Hotline: 1800 880 052
- Aboriginal Family Domestic Violence Hotline: 1800 019 123
Zero Tolerance (an NDS initiative) assists disability service providers to understand, implement and improve practices which safeguard the rights of people
they support.
Find out more about the Royal Commission
Disability Royal Commission: COVID vaccine rollout ‘seriously deficient’
28/09/2021
The Royal Commission has released a draft report on the Australian Governmentâs approach to the COVID-19 vaccination rollout. The Commissionersâ report contains 17 findings and seven recommendations for the Government, many directed at the Department of Health (DoH). It focuses on evidence from Public Hearing 12 held in May (at which NDS gave evidence), but also incorporates developments since then.
The report considers âthree core problemsâ with the rollout for people with disability: