For information and support related to your rights and responsibilities, you may like to contact an advocacy or peak organisation for people with disability. Links to some of the national and state advocacy and peak organisations for people with disability are provided below.
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Action for Community Living
Action for Community Living is an organisation that advocates empowerment, independence and life in the community for people with disability.
Australasian Network of Students With Disability
The Australasian Network of Students With Disabilities is a student organisation advocating, promoting, lobbying and campaigning on disability issues.
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
The Australian Federation of Disability Organisations is a peak body for disability consumer organisations. The mission of the organisation is to champion the rights of people with disability in Australia and help them participate fully in Australian life.
Australian Mental Health Consumer Network
The Australian Mental Health Consumer Network is the National Mental Health Consumer Peak Body for Australia. The Network provides a way for consumers to have input into the delivery of mental health services and national policy direction.
Disability Discrimination Legal Service Inc—Victoria
Disability Discrimination Legal Service is an independent community legal centre that specialises in disability discrimination legal matters in Victoria. They provide free legal services in several areas including information, referral, advice, casework assistance, community legal education, and policy and law reform.
Disability Rights Victoria
Disability Rights Victoria is an advocacy organisation that works with and on behalf of adults with physical and multiple disability. Their aim is to ensure that all Victorians with physical and multiple disabilities enjoy the same citizenship rights and life opportunities as other members of society.
Mental Health Council of Australia
The Mental Health Council of Australia is a national peak organisation that represents and promotes the interests of the mental health sector. They are committed to achieving better mental health for all Australians.
Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association of NSW
The Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association of NSW is the peak agency for people from a non-English speaking background with disability and their families and carers in NSW. They aim to promote, protect and secure the rights and interests of people with disability from a non-English speaking background, and their families and carers in NSW.
National Council on Intellectual Disability
The National Council on Intellectual Disability is a national association representing people with intellectual disability and their families in Australia.
National Ethnic Disability Alliance
The National Ethnic Disability Alliance is the national peak organisation representing the rights and interests of people from non-English speaking background with disability, their families and carers throughout Australia.
People With Disability Australia
People with Disability Australia Incorporated is a national peak disability rights and advocacy organisation. They have a cross disability focus and represent the interests of people with all kinds of disability.
Physical Disability Council of Australia
The Physical Disability Council of Australia is a national organisation that represents the needs of people with physical disability.
Women With Disabilities Australia
Women with Disabilities Australia is a national organisation for the needs and rights of women with disability. They aim to improve the lives and life chances of women with disability.