DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION: CONSISTENTLY THE LARGEST CATEGORY OF COMPLAINTS REPORTED TO AHRC
According to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), disability discrimination occurs when a person with disability is treated unequally, less favourably, or not given the same opportunities as other people because of their disability. The treatment may be direct or indirect. Direct discrimination involves overt acts, often intentional, such as explicitly denying rights under the law or deliberately excluding people with disability from community life. For example, ref