The violence, neglect and mistreatment of Australian people with disability bleeds into every facet of their lives and must be blunted, the disability royal commission has found.
The royal commission’s interim report was on Friday tabled in federal parliament after being handed earlier in the day to Governor-General David Hurley.
The report, taking in the commission’s public hearings between November 2019 and July 2020, found barriers exist on every level – from environmental and institutional challenges to community attitudes – that prevent full societal inclusion of people with…