Royal Commission Key Questions

The submission form contains the following key questions.

Section 1: Questions about your experiences 

 

Question 1 – Being treated badly

1. Have you been treated badly because of your disability?
2. Or, has someone that you know been treated badly because of their disability?
3. If you said yes, what happened?
4. Did this happen once?
5. Or did it happen more than once?

 

Question 2 – Telling someone what happened  

1. If you or someone you know has been treated badly, did you tell anyone?
2. If you said yes, who did you tell?
3. Did they do anything about it?
4. What did they do?
5. Were you happy with the way they acted when you told them you were treated badly?

 

Question 3 – Using a service or visiting a place 

1. Has there ever been a time when you couldn’t use a service or visit a place because of your disability?
2. If you said yes, what happened?
3. Did you tell anyone?
4. If you said yes, who did you tell?
5. Did they do anything about it?
6. What did they do?
7. Were you happy with the way they acted when you told them you couldn’t use the service or visit the place?

 

Question 4 – Using disability services 

1. Have you used a disability service where you thought you were unsafe?
2. If you said yes, what kind of service was it?
3. What happened to make you feel unsafe?
4. Did you tell anyone about it?
5. If you said yes, who did you tell?
6. Were you happy with the way they acted when you told them you felt unsafe?

 

Question 5 – Providing support 

1. Do you provide support to a person with disability?
2. If you said yes, do you get paid to do this?
3. Is the support formal – does the person pay for it?
4. Or is the support informal – does it include support that is done for free?
5. What type of support do you provide?
6. And why do you provide it?

 

Question 6 – Using new ideas to make things better for people with disability   

1. Have you ever tried to make things better for people with disability?
2. Are there ideas that you can share with us to help us understand the best ways to work with people with disability?
3. Do you have ideas about how we can keep people with disability safe?
4. If you have been using these ideas in your work, please give us all the details, including:

• • where you have used them
  • how they work
  • if they have been tested
  • the results they have achieved.

 

Question 7 – First Nations Peoples  

1. Have you, or someone that you know, missed out on services or care because you are from a First Nations community?  This includes Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples.
2. Has being a person from a First Nations community put you, or someone you know, at risk or made you feel unsafe?
3. If you said yes, what happened?
4. Please tell us what part of Australia this happened in.

 

Question 8 – Receiving services  

1. Do you think that you have been treated badly or have missed out on services because of your disability and your:

• • gender – whether you are male, female or another gender
  • age
  • place of birth, if that was outside of Australia
  • language, if your first language is not English.

2. You can tell us about any other bad treatment because of your personal situation.
3. Please tell us what happened.

 

Question 9 – Making our community more inclusive 

1. Do you have any ideas about making sure that our community includes people with disability?
2. Please share your ideas below.

 

Question 10 – Reporting when people with disability are treated badly   

1. We want to know about things that are working well to keep people with disability safe.  For example:
2. Are there ways of reporting and keeping good records?
3. Are there good ways of looking into and solving problems?
4. Are there ways to stop people with disability from being treated badly?
5. Please share your ideas below.

 

 

Section 2: Is there anything else you would like to tell us about?  

You can tell us about anything else that is part of our Terms of Reference. The Terms of Reference are in a document that explains the role of the Royal Commission and the problems that we are looking into. You can find it on our website.  Please share any other ideas or experiences here.