Publications

Please select the links below to access DANA publications:

• DANA Snapshot of COVID-19 Advocacy Demand
• Voices of Advocacy (Informing the Disability Royal Commission)

About Independent Advocacy

• What do advocates do? (PDF)
• Cost Benefit Analysis of Independent Disability Advocacy
  • report summary
  • full report
• Submissions (Word)

Surveys of Advocacy Organisations

• Advocacy Organisational Survey – DANA Survey 2015 (PDF)
• Advocacy Workforce Survey – DANA Survey 2015 (PDF)
• Advocacy and the NDIS – DANA Survey 2015 (PDF)

Disability Royal Commission issues

• Eight National organisations (including DANA) have submitted a joint position paper on segregation: Segregation of people with disability is discrimination and must end. This submission has now been endorsed by over 50 organisations and 150 individuals. (See our DRC Blog)
• See also Voices of Advocacy

Endorsements and joint submissions on the NDIS

• Proposed NDIS legislative improvements and the Participant Service Guarantee – Joint submission by Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service Inc. and Rights Information Advocacy Centre Inc.
• Submission to the Joint Standing Committee: Unreasonable and unnecessary harms: Joint submission regarding the NDIS internal review and external appeals processes
• Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs on the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Measures) Bill 2021 – Joint submission by Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service Inc. and Rights Information Advocacy Centre Inc.
• Joint statement on the Australian Government’s planned reforms to the NDIS
• Response to Consultation on Proposed NDIS Reforms: Access and Independent Assessments 

Joint statements and letters in relation to COVID-19

• Open Letter to the National Cabinet (April 2020)
• Inclusion Australia, Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) and DANA urged the closure of Australian Disability Enterprises until the pandemic passes. Read the joint media release.
• Open Letter: Immediate Actions Required To Vaccinate And Protect All Australians With Disability Against Coronavirus (August 2021)

Annual reports

• DANA Annual Report 2014 (Word)
• DANA Annual Report 2013 (Word)
• DANA Annual Report 2012 (Word)
• DANA Annual Report 2011(Word)

Financial Statements

• Financial Statements 2017 (PDF)
• Financial Statements 2018 (PDF)
• Financial Statements 2019 (PDF)
• Financials & Documents on the Australian Charities & Not-for-profit Commission (ACNC) Charity Register