APPENDIX 1

Submissions and additional information received by the Committee

Submissions

1

Mr Geoffrey Bird 

2

Russell Family Fetal Alcohol Disorders Association 

3

Confidential

4

Australian Law Reform Commission 

5

Melbourne Social Equity Institute and Hallmark Disability Research Initiative 

6

Australian Human Rights Commission 

7

Queensland Advocacy Incorporated 

8

Professor Harry Blagg, Dr Tamara Tulich and Ms Zoe Bush (plus an attachment) 

9

Sisters Inside 

10

Legal Aid Western Australia 

11

Dr Janet Hammill (plus eleven attachments) 

12

Australian Medical Association (plus two attachments) 

13

Mental Health Review Tribunal 

14

Australian College of Mental Health Nurses; Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives; and Australian College of Nursing (plus an attachment) 

15

National Mental Health Commission 

16

Carers NSW 

17

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (plus a supplementary submission)

18

Criminal Lawyers Association of the Northern Territory 

19

Professor Richard Fleming 

20

Victorian Ombudsman (plus an attachment) 

21

Mental Health Commission of New South Wales 

22

Mr Mark Skinner 

23

Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (plus an attachment and a supplementary submission)

24

NT Community Visitor Program 

25

Refugee Council of Australia 

26

Global Action on Personhood 

27

Western Australian Association for Mental Health 

28

Advocacy Tasmania Inc 

29

South Australia Community Visitor Scheme (plus an attachment) 

30

Ms Jan Barham MLC 

31

Ms Miranda Bain (plus an attachment) 

32

National Disability Services 

33

Australian Lawyers Alliance 

34

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services 

35

Geraldton Resource Centre Inc. (plus two attachments) 

36

Office of the Public Advocate Queensland 

37

Disability Rights Advocacy Service 

38

Amnesty International Australia 

39

First Peoples Disability Justice Consortium 

40

NSW Council for Intellectual Disability 

41

Name Withheld 

42

Alzheimer's Australia 

43

Mental Health Matters 2 

44

Professor Dan Howard SC 

45

Telethon Kids Institute 

46

Justice Action 

47

Chief Justice of Western Australia (plus two attachments) 

48

Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, UNSW Australia 

49

Being 

50

Department of Social Services 

51

Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services (plus an attachment) 

52

Australian Association of Social Workers (plus an attachment) 

53

Jesuit Social Services 

54

Chatter Matters Tasmania 

55

National Organisation for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders 

56

Office of the Public Guardian Queensland 

57

Just Reinvest NSW 

58

Office of the Public Advocate Victoria 

59

Dr Linda Steele 

60

North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency 

61

Australian Cross Disability Alliance 

62

Legal Aid NSW 

63

Dr Joanne Bradbury 

64

Change the Record Coalition (plus an attachment) 

65

Forensicare 

66

NSW Government 

67

Barriers to Justice 

68

Liberty Victoria 

69

Director of Forensic Disability Queensland 

70

Senior Public Psychiatrists, ACT 

71

Victoria Legal Aid 

72

Law Council of Australia 

73

Ms Alison Youssef 

74

Ms Ida Curtois (plus an attachment) 

75

Northern Territory Government 

76

Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign 

77

Mental Health Advocacy Service (plus two attachments) 

78

Confidential

79

Name Withheld 

80

Name Withheld 

Additional Information

1

Update on Rosie Anne Fulton, from the Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign and Mr Ian McKinlay (Ms Fulton's Adult Guardian), received 27 April 2016

2

A predictable and preventable path: Aboriginal people with mental and cognitive disabilities in the criminal justice system report, from UNSW Indigenous Australians with Mental Health Disorders and Cognitive Disability in the Criminal Justice System project, received 7 April 2016

3

Supreme Court of Western Australia's submission to the Review of the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996, from Chief Justice of Western Australia, received 15 September 2016

4

The West Australian newspaper, 8 October 2014, p. 1, from Mental Health Matters 2, received 19 September 2016

5

Comorbidity of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Lancet journal article, 5 March 2016, from Telethon Kids Institute, received 28 September 2016

6

The Geraldton Guardian newspaper, 30 September 2016, p.10, from Geraldton Resource Centre, received 7 October 2016

7

Unfitness to Plead Project: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Supporter, from Melbourne Social Equity Institute and Hallmark Disability Research Initiative, received 24 October 2016

8

NT Community Visitor Program Annual Report 2015/2016, from NT Community Visitor Program, received 31 October 2016

9

The ITHACA Toolkit, from Criminal Lawyers Association of the NT, received 1 November 2016

Answers to Questions on Notice

1

Answers to Questions taken on Notice during 29 April public hearing, received from Melbourne Social Equity Institute and Disability Research Initiative ‘Unfitness to Plead Project’ Team, 13 May 2016

2

Answers to Questions taken on Notice during 19 September public hearing, received from Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services, 4 October 2016

3

Answers to Questions taken on Notice during 19 September public hearing, received from WA Disability Services Commission, 5 October 2016

4

Answers to Questions taken on Notice during 19 September public hearing, received from University of Western Australia Law School, 14 October 2016

5

Answers to Questions taken on Notice during 25 October public hearing, received from Northern Territory Department of Health, 22 November 2016

6

Answers to Questions taken on Notice during 26 October public hearing, received from Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission, 17 November 2016

7

Answers to Questions taken on Notice during 26 October public hearing, received from North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, 23 November 2016

8

Answers to Questions taken on Notice during 8 November public hearing, received from Law Council of Australia, 10 November 2016

9

Answers to Questions taken on Notice during 8 November public hearing, received from Just Reinvest NSW, 18 November 2016

10

Answers to Questions taken on Notice during 8 November public hearing, received from Department of Social Services, 21 November 2016

Correspondence

1

Correspondence and additional information from the Civil Law Unit of the Attorney-General’s Department, received 8 November 2016

2

Correspondence clarifying evidence given at the 26 October 2016 public hearing, received from the Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission, 17 November 2016

Tabled Documents

1

Position statement on the Forensic Disability Service, tabled by Queensland Advocacy Inc, at Brisbane public hearing 23 March 2016

2

Queensland Forensic Disability Service, Shining light on a closed system through an examination of forensic disability orders for persons with an intellectual or cognitive disability, October 2015, tabled by Queensland Advocacy Inc, at Brisbane public hearing 23 March 2016

3

Position statement regarding the use of restrictive practices on people with disability, tabled by Queensland Advocacy Inc, at Brisbane public hearing 23 March 2016

4

Conclusions on the use of restrictive practices for people with an intellectual or cognitive disability, How to return respect and control to marginalised people, October 2014, tabled by Queensland Advocacy Inc, at Brisbane public hearing 23 March 2016

5

Disabled Justice, The barriers to justice for persons with disability in Queensland, May 2007, tabled by Queensland Advocacy Inc, at Brisbane public hearing 23 March 2016

6

Dis-Abled Justice, Reforms to justice for persons with disability in Queensland, May 2015, tabled by Queensland Advocacy Inc, at Brisbane public hearing 23 March 2016

7

Human Rights Indicators for People with Disability, A resource for disability activists and policy makers, October 2007, tabled by Queensland Advocacy Inc, at Brisbane public hearing 23 March 2016

8

Information on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, tabled by Dr Janet Hammill, at Brisbane public hearing 23 March 2016

9

Opening statement, tabled by Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign, at Melbourne public hearing 29 April 2016

10

Opening statement, tabled by Victorian Office of the Public Advocate, at Melbourne public hearing 29 April 2016

11

Opening statement, tabled by Victoria Legal Aid, at Melbourne public hearing 29 April 2016

12

Opening statement, tabled by Jesuit Social Services, at Melbourne public hearing 29 April 2016

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