Advocacy

Advocacy Support
I have provided voluntary advocacy representation on behalf of people with disability on a range of committies and reference groups including:
The Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability (member and chair)
Disability Services Commission Board
Main Roads Disability Advisory Group
Departement of Transport Consumer Advisory Comittee
Transperth Customer Committee
Sussex Street Community Law Service Disability Discrimination Unit Reference Group
Sussex Street Community Law Service Committee of Management
Australian Standards Tactile Ground Surface Indicators Review Committee

I maintain an extensive disability network with personal contacts in a wide range of both government and non-government organisations.
I keep myself updated on disability public policies as advocated by a range of disability representative organisations including:
People with Disabilities inc.
National Disability Services
Disability Discrimination Uniit , Sussex Street Community Law Service
Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability
Blind Citizens WA
Blind Citizens Australia
Visibility (formerly Association of the Blind WA)
WA Deaf Society
WA Assosiation of the Deaf
Physical Disability Council
Australian Advocacy Network
Ethnic Disability Advisory Council
Various high profile individuals within the disability sector