Our contribution to Policy and Law Reform

Villamanta is committed to policy and law reform that benefits Victorians with disability. We will continue to challenge laws that we believe have the potential to harm people with disability.

Read our contributions to policy and law reform in the disability sector from 2011 onward (from most recent):

2024

Submission to Inquiry Into the Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | November 2024

Submissions to Consumer Affairs Victoria Renter Services Review

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | October 2024

Effectiveness of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's Regulatory Functions

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | October 2024

Subsequent Submission to the NDIS Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No 1) Bill 2024

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | July 2024

Submission to Inquiry Into Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | June 2024

Response to Inquiry Into Capturing Data on Family Violence Perpetrators in Victoria

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | May 2024

Submissions on the NDIS Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No 1) Bill 2024

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | May 2024

Submission to the NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | 26 April 2024

2023

Protecting the Rights of Tenants in Disability Accommodation settings

Villamanta and Victoria Legal Aid | 12 December 2023

Letter to the Victorian Attorney General on Gag Laws

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | 20 June 2023

Response to Issues Paper on the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework Independent Review

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | May 2023

Response to Public Consultation Draft: Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | April 2023

Access and Planning Under the NDIS

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service

Briefing Paper for NDIS Review

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service | March 2023

2022

Joint submission on Capability and Culture of the NDIA

Various advocacy organisations

Submission to the Royal Commission Roundtable into supported decisionmaking and guardianship: proposals for reform

Villamanta | 18 July 2022

Model litigant obligations and NDIS appeals

Villamanta, Disability Advocacy NSW, Your Say Advocacy Tasmania | 3 June 2022

2021

Submissions

Proposed NDIS legislative improvements and the Participant Service Guarantee

Villamanta and RIAC | 2021

Unreasonable and unnecessary harms: Joint submission regarding the NDIS internal review and external appeals processes

Various advocacy organisations | 23 August 2021

General issues around the implementation and performance of the NDIS

Villamanta and RIAC | 2021

Responses

Inquiry into the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission - Question on Notice

Villamanta | 4 June 2021

Response to Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS: Independent Assessments

Villamanta | 2021

Response to Consultation on Proposed NDIS Reforms: Access and Independent Assessments

Villamanta | 2021

Response to Consultation on Proposed NDIS Reforms: Planning and Budgets

NDIS Appeals Advocacy Organisations | 2021

2020

Inquiry into the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

Villamanta | 30 July 2020

2019

Statement to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability | Hearing on Group Homes

Naomi Anderson on behalf of Villamanta | Published 5 December 2019

2015

Inquiry contributions

Violence, abuse and neglect against people with disability in institutional and residential settings | Community Affairs References Committee (CW: rape)

Villamanta | 30 June 2015

Inquiry into Abuse in Disability Services

Parliament of Victoria | Family and Community Development Committee | August 2015

2014

Submissions

Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws

Communication Rights Australia, Disability Discrimination Legal Service Inc. and Villamanta | January 2014

Productivity Commission | Access to Justice

Villamanta and Disability Discrimination Legal Service Inc. | May 2014

2012

Inquiry into access to and interaction with the justice system by people with an intellectual disability and their families and carers

Law Reform Committee | 21 May 2012

2011

Access to and Interaction with the Justice System by People with an Intellectual Disability and Their Families and Carers

Villamanta | 7 November 2011