Australia can build a better disability employment system - Grattan Institute

Key Points

Australia spends more than $1.3 billion a year on helping disabled people find work. Yet for many Australians with high support needs, that investment has delivered very little. The rate of employment of this cohort has remained stubbornly low for decades. Nearly three years ago, the Disability Royal Commission made a series of recommendations to fix this problem. It called for an end to sub-minim…