Creating a Disability Responsive Workforce | ACOLA Parliamentary Library Seminars
This seminar is part of a collaboration between the Parliamentary Library and ACOLA to bring Australia’s leading minds from Australia’s Learned Academies and other experts to important topics of interest to Parliament.
This session was a conversation led by Professor Iva Strnadová and Professor Karen Fisher FASSA on the context and adequacy of training of professionals to support the needs of people with disability in Australia. The seminar highlighted six key principles to enhance training for all occupations, and actions governments, education providers, professional bodies and employers can take.
This discussion builds on a recent report by ACOLA entitled Ensuring Occupations are Responsive to People with Disability. Professors Strnadová and Fisher were the chairs of the Expert Working Group for that project.
The seminar was held on 14 December 2022 and recorded by the Parliamentary Library.
Professor Iva Strnadová
Professor Karen Fisher FASSA
Acknowledgement of Country
ACOLA acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters on which we live and work across Australia; and the continuing connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to Country. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, and to Elders both past and present.
