00:00 Look, all six commissioners from the Disability Royal Commission travelled to Canberra and
00:06 they have handed this final report to the Governor-General today.
00:12 It is expected to be a lengthy report, multiple volumes, hundreds of recommendations are expected
00:18 and it is an extensive body of work that has been produced over the last four and a half
00:23 years as a result of this Royal Commission which has come about after huge amounts of
00:31 fighting and campaigning from the disability community itself.
00:35 This report is something they are eagerly awaiting.
00:38 I mean the next step in this particular process now that it has been handed to the Government
00:43 is for it to be tabled in Parliament which we are expecting to happen tomorrow and then
00:48 at that point it will be made public and there's no doubt everyone is very much looking towards
00:53 those recommendations and wanting to know what they are.
00:57 The Minister for Social Services, Amanda Rishworth, has this week been talking about the response
01:05 that will be coming up and she has thanked the disability community for showing bravery
01:12 in sharing stories.
01:15 Without people sharing their stories, sometimes very difficult stories, we won't see change.
01:22 So I would like to say a very big thank you to all those that contributed to this Royal
01:27 Commission.
01:28 It clearly was a process once it started that went on for an extensive period of time.
01:36 The work is extensive and really for all those that have contributed and worked on this,
01:41 a big thank you.
01:43 The terms of reference which is the technical term for I guess the things that the Royal
01:46 Commission needed to investigate were quite wide, anything and everything from education,
01:52 employment and housing right through to the justice system and health and everything in
01:56 between.
01:57 So it is hoping that change will be brought about but there's also a little bit of concern
02:02 that the recommendations won't go far enough and it's very fair to say that the community
02:07 just wants to have a look at those recommendations and it knows that change won't happen overnight
02:13 but it desperately wants to see change implemented so that society can be more inclusive and
02:17 the violence and abuse against people with disability can finally come to an end.
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