Position and policy statements

We are committed to ensuring our members can work with their clients to create a place where people with disability can enjoy all human rights and freedoms just like everyone else. In this brief overview, we highlight the key volumes, findings and recommendations that are most important to our members.

This article gives a detailed overview of the Disability Royal Commission’s final report outlining the recommendations that the Australian Government must adopt to prevent violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of people with disability.

A submission providing feedback on the draft Aged Care Data and Digital Strategy. Overall, we support the Strategy, with some minor feedback as outlined in the attached submission.

Overview of the policy and advocacy work undertaken on your behalf during October 2023.

A summary of the association's consultation in the Auslan service usage in primary care documents.

Summary of the latest progress report on the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.

Overview of the 2023 Allied Health Professions Australia (AHPA) Member Policy Symposium in Melbourne, Victoria.

AHPA is seeking feedback from allied health professionals on their experiences supporting patients with long COVID or repeated COVID infections

Find out information about what workplace rehabilitation is and what working in the scheme involves

AHPA brief to the Minister of Aged Care on key issues for allied health

Osteopathy Australia Submission to the Australian Commission on the Safety and Quality Healthcare's guide for the Primary & Community Health Care Standards

Osteopathy Australia's submission to SIRA NSW for the consultation on the Draft Guidelines for the Provision of Relevant Services (Health and Related Services)