Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Through the approach of the legislation, the objects of the act takes an inclusive approach. The Senate inquiry highlighted that one of the key flaws of the current Disability Services Act was that it actually embedded exclusion and segregation for particular communities of people with a disability. Those elements have been removed, and we have responded to feedback from the disability community, developing an act that specifically speaks to inclusion and removes the enablers of segregation within this framework that we are discussing today.