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September 2023

Royal commission reveals violence, abuse, exploitation: Shorten

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten said the release of the Disability Royal Commission report represented a historical moment in Australia; world’s tallest timber tower approved in Perth. How the day unfolded so far.

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  • Campbell Kwan
The commission said pay rates should be raised to at least 50 per cent of the minimum wage as a first step and after five years, a pathway developed to lift rates to 100 per cent of the minimum wage by 2034.

Pay disabled workers minimum wage by 2034: royal commission

Royal commissioners also recommended the government cover the costs of higher wages for disabled workers and better salaries for support staff.

  • Andrew Tillett and David Marin-Guzman

June 2022

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Australia’s first Indigenous Supreme Court judge sworn in

Lincoln Crowley didn’t take legal studies classes at high school and doesn’t think he even knew the Supreme Court existed, “but I knew what was fair and what was not”.

  • Marty Silk

November 2021

Woolworths commissioned a review into its barriers to people with a disability in 2017.

Woolworths grilled over five-year delay in disability hiring

Woolworths has been criticised at a royal commission for taking almost five years to introduce disability employment targets.

  • David Marin-Guzman
Disability Royal Commission counsel assisting Kate Eastman says “the issue is not what should be done, but rather why hasn’t it been done”.

Disability employment among top companies just 1pc

Employment of people with a disability among ASX100 companies, including Woolworths and Lendlease, is “disturbingly low”, a royal commission has heard.

  • David Marin-Guzman

September 2019

Adam Tindall - CEO, AMP Capital 17th August 2017 Photo by Louise Kennerley AFR

AMP Capital hits $200b of funds amid global shift to real assets

The performance of AMP Capital and its prospects provides some good news for the otherwise embattled group.

  • Jonathan Shapiro

July 2019

Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John listens to Prime Minister Scott Morrison move a motion in support for a royal commission into the abuse of disabled people, in the House of Representatives.

Disabilty commissioners face 'unmanageable' conflicts

Advocacy groups are increasing pressure on Scott Morrison to replace disability royal commissioners John Ryan and Barbara Bennett, after Greens senator Jordon Steele-John described their positions untenable.

  • Tom McIlroy

April 2019

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Social Services Minister Paul Fletcher speak to the media at Parliament House in Canberra on April 5, 2019.

Call for royal commission appointees to step down

Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John says two of the disability royal commissioners have have conflict of interests and he cannot support the inquiry while the two remain in their posts.

  • Andrew Tillett

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