“A national Disability Advisory Council is established in 1983”

Title: “A national Disability Advisory Council is established in 1983”
Description: The national Disability Advisory Council (DACA) was established in 1983. Parliamentary information from 26 July that year reports: “Disabled people will form a significant majority on the new body. Announcing this today, the Minister for Social Security, Senator Don Grimes, said the new Disability Advisory Council of Australia represented an important breakthrough for disabled people. For the first time, an Australian Government will be looking to disabled people themselves for advice on government policy and programs affecting them.”
Identifier: AC00056
Publisher: Disability Arts History Australia
datePublished: 1980s
location: National; Australia
category: Action
Type: Create Action
Format: Text
inLanguage: English
keywords: Disability and Social Policy
copyrightNotice: © Disability Arts History Australia, Contributed by Annie Rolfe
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20250403231237/https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/media/pressrel/HPR08015756/upload_binary/HPR08015756.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf#search=%22disability%20advisory%20council%201983%22

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