The National Advocacy Collective (NAC) is a group of people across Australia who support the rights of parents with an intellectual disability. Inclusion Australia supports the group to do their work in different ways.
The NAC has made a joint statement calling on the Government to remove the Schedule 5 amendment from the Social Security and Other Legislative Amendments (Technical Change No 2) Bill 2025.
Schedule 5 would give police new powers to advise the government to stop a person’s Centrelink payment.
The NAC is very concerned that this would have negative impacts for people with intellectual disability, including parents with intellectual disability and especially those who are in contact with justice systems already.
You can read the joint statement here or click below.
An Easy Read version of the joint statement will be coming soon.