Developing the response

Disability Royal Commission Taskforce

In recognition of the significant scale of the reforms recommended by the Disability Royal Commission, the Australian Government established a Commonwealth Disability Royal Commission Response Taskforce.  

The Taskforce is a business unit within the Department of Social Services. 

The Taskforce supported the Australian Government’s consideration of, and response to, the Disability Royal Commission’s final report by:  

• Supporting coordinated consideration of the Disability Royal Commission’s final report across Commonwealth departments and agencies.  
• Engaging and consulting with people with disability, their families, carers, representative organisations, service providers, unions, employers and the broader community to inform Government decision making on reform and change.  
• Working with state and territory officials to consider recommendations of joint Commonwealth, state and territory responsibility. 

About our consultation and engagement

The Australian Government, at ministerial level and through the Commonwealth Disability Royal Commission Taskforce, consulted and engaged with people to inform decision-making on reform in response to the Disability Royal Commission’s Final Report and recommendations. 

Who we consulted

Everybody was invited to have their say and put forward their views relating to the recommendations of the Disability Royal Commission. This included: 

• people with disability, their families, and carers 
• advocates and representative organisations 
• disability support providers, unions, and workers 
• peak bodies, academics, and other organisations 
• the broader community. 

The Australian Government also acknowledges the Disability Representative Organisations, peak bodies and other organisations that conducted significant independent engagement and consultation within their own membership networks and represented their views to the Taskforce. These efforts have enabled us to have a wider reach into the community, to hear more voices and to better understand what is important to them. 

Public consultation report

Public consultation was undertaken between 28 November 2023 and 19 January 2024 to understand stakeholders’ responses and views on the Disability Royal Commission recommendations.  

All responses have been analysed and consolidated into a summary report. An Easy Read version is also available. 

Read the Public Consultation Report(Opens in a new tab/window) on the Engage website.