Word list

This list explains what the bold words mean.

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Accessible

When the community is accessible, it is easy to:

  • find and use services
  • understand and use information
  • move around.

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Advocates

Advocates speak up for people with disability.

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Australia’s Disability Strategy

Australia’s Disability Strategy is a plan to support people with disability in all areas of their life.

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Code of Conduct

A Code of Conduct is a list of rules about how providers and workers should behave.

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Complaint

When you make a complaint, you tell someone that something:

  • has gone wrong
  • isn’t working well.

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Data

Data includes facts, information and records.

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Disability Support Pension

The Disability Support Pension is a payment from the government to help with your day-to-day living costs.

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Draft

A draft is a document that isn’t finished.

Some things in a draft might change later.

Other people check a draft before they publish it.

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Funding

Funding is money from the government that pays for services and supports.

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Lived experience of disability

If you have lived experience of disability, you:

  • have a disability
  • know what life can be like for people with disability
  • can tell your story to help others.

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Minister

A minister is a person who runs an area of government.

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National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

The NDIS provides services and support to people with disability.

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Principles

Principles are important ideas we should always think about.

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Privacy

When you have privacy, you can choose:

  • what you want to keep safe and private
  • what other people can know about you.

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Providers

Providers deliver services to people with disability.

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Respite

Respite is when someone takes a break from caring for someone with disability.

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Rights

Rights are rules about how people must treat you:

  • fairly
  • equally.

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Standards

Standards are rules about how to do things well.

You can:

  • meet standards
  • go above standards.

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UN Convention

The UN Convention is an agreement between different countries.

The UN Convention explains how people must treat people with disability:

  • fairly
  • equally.