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Last updated: 30 August 2006
Employment of people with disability in the APS
Appendix 1
Contributors to the report
This report was prepared by a project team located in the Australian Public Service Commission under the supervision of a Deputy Secretaries’ Group reporting to the Management Advisory Committee.
Deputy Secretaries’ Group
Mr Stephen Hunter (Chair)
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Mr Graham Bashford
Centrelink
Mr Graham Carters
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Mr Ed Killesteyn
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Dr Roger Lough
Department of Defence
Ms Lynne Tacy
Australian Public Service Commission
Project team
Ms Brenda Berkeley
Department of the Treasury
Ms Kate Dawson
Department of Defence
Dr Loucas Nicolaou
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
The Management Advisory Committee recognises the support provided by the Departments of the Treasury, Defence, and Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in providing the services of the above officers to undertake this review.
The project team also received substantial assistance from many officers in the Australian Public Service Commission, including Ms Lexie Brans.
Staff focus group participants
The Management Advisory Committee is grateful for the contributions made by all APS employees with disability who participated in the focus group discussions and other individual interviews, carried out as part of this review between November 2005 and May 2006.
Organisations consulted
The organisations listed below have also provided significant support for the review.
APS agencies
- Attorney General’s Department (AGD)
- Australian Public Service Commission
- Australian Taxation Office (ATO)
- Centrelink
- Comcare
- Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service (CRS) Australia
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)
- Department of Defence (Defence)
- Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR)
- Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA)
- Department of Finance and Administration (Finance)
- Department of Health and Ageing (Health)
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C)
- Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA)
- Department of the Treasury (Treasury)
- Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
- Office of the Employment Advocate (OEA)
State/Territory Government Agencies
- ACT Government - Chief Minister’s Department
- NSW State Government - Department of Education and Training (Disability Programmes)
- NSW State Government - Premier’s Department (Employment Equity & Diversity, Public Employment Office)
- Queensland Government - Office of Public Service Merit and Equity (OPSME)
- Victorian State Government - Department of Human Services
Private Sector Agencies
- Coles Myer
- IBM Australia Limited
- Telstra
Other organisations
- ACROD—National Industry Association for Disability Services
- ACT Disability Advisory Council (ACT DAC)
- Advance Personnel (ACT)
- Association of Competitive Employment (Ace) National Network
- Australian Association of the Deaf (AAD)
- Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
- Australian Federation of Deaf Societies (AFDS)
- Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) beyondblue—The National Depression Initiative
- Blind Citizens Australia (BCA)
- Brain Injury Australia (BIA)
- Deafness Forum Australia (DFA)
- Disability Employment Action Centre (DEAC) Legal Services
- Diversity @ Work
- Disability Works Australia
- The Australian Employers’ Network on Disability: Employers Making a Difference Inc. (EMD)
- Erebus International (EI)
- Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS)
- Job Solve (ACT—NETA Member)
- Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA)
- National Council of Intellectual Disability (NCID)
- National Employment Services Association (NESA)
- National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA)
- Network of Employment and Training Agencies (NETA)
- NSW Council for Intellectual Disability (NSW CID)
- Physical Disability Council of Australia (PDCA)
- Regional Disability Liaison Officer/Disability Coordination Officer Canberra and Region—ACT NETA Member (RDLO/DCO)
- Willing and Able Mentoring Program (W&AM)
- Work-Ways (ACT—NETA Member)
Related reviews
A number of reviews on related topics have recently been conducted, including:
- the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s National Inquiry into Employment and Disability175
- the evaluation of the Commonwealth Disability Strategy commissioned by the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs176
- the Employers’ Roundtable for People with Disabilities established by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations177
- in 2004, the Productivity Commission’s Review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.178
The present review did not attempt to revisit the issues examined in those reviews but instead focused on the particular barriers faced by people with disability in securing employment in the APS and, once employed, realising their full career potential. It also examined practical actions the APS can take to eliminate those barriers.
- Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) 2005, WORKability II: Solutions—People with Disability in the Open Workplace, HREOC, Sydney; HREOC 2005, WORKability I: Barriers—People with Disability in the Open Workplace, HREOC, Sydney.
- The evaluation was, at the time of writing, unpublished.
- The Employer Demand Action Plan remained, at the time of writing, unpublished.
- Productivity Commission, Review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (2004).
