Associate Professor Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Co-ordinator, Disability Research Initiative, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

Analysis

Now is the time to get disability human rights into Australian anti-discrimination law

Two major opportunities for reform of the Disability Discrimination Act have been overlooked, including being respected as decision-makers on an equal basis as others and discriminatory migration practices

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Breaking down COVID-19 barriers for people with disability

COVID-19 poses particular challenges for people with disability, but some aren’t the issues that people might assume

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Unfit to plead: Imprisoned without conviction

The right to justice is a cornerstone of the modern legal system, but those with cognitive disabilities can be ruled as ‘unfit to plead’. Now a two-year research project finds there may be a pathway to equal access to justice for those who need

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Restoring voice to people with cognitive disability

Laws that remove people’s rights to make decisions on the basis of cognitive disability need a rethink

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Disability-based disadvantage – a life sentence?

A new research project is focussing on the injustices around the indefinite detention of people with cognitive disabilities

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Researching disability

Shifting the disability research agenda to eliminate discrimination is a work in progress