Within the gig economy workers are retained for single gigs and not in secure on-going positions. Workers in precarious work are regarded as workers vulnerable to exploitation. Why then does the leading disability human rights convention, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...

University studies require students to read a large number of textbooks. This paper will build upon an earlier paper in this Review to report on primary research and analyse recent reforms to the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth), which gained royal assent in July 2009. These reforms have...

This presentation will critically analyse the key drivers of disability disadvantage in the labour market and explore how laws and policies can create more inclusive workplaces. This presentation argues that employers can help promote disability inclusive workplaces, but ignoring the wider...

This article analyzes the positive impact the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is having in stimulating and guiding legislative protections in developing States. It focuses on South Pacific States, with particular attention to Vanuatu. Finally, the article provides...

This article argues that governments around the world need to take immediate coordinated action to reverse the ‘book famine’. There are over 129 million book titles in the world, but persons with print disabilities can obtain less than 7 per cent of these titles in formats that they can...