Editing Disability rights movement (section)

=== Australia ===
In 1978 protests outside Australia's Parliament House in Canberra helped force the government to rescind taxes on government payments to people with disability. Demonstrations inside and outside parliament since been held regarding various issues, leading to an expansion of the National Attendant Care Scheme in 1992 and helping to convince the federal government to establish the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability in 2019. Similar protests outside state parliaments have fed into campaigns for improved rights and funding, leading to improvements in supported accommodation in New South Wales in 1994 and continued support for Queensland disability advocacy services in 2021.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

Beginning in 1981, the International Year of the Disabled Person, campaigners targeted beauty pageants such as the Miss Australia Quest in order to, in the words of activist Leslie Hall, "challenge the notion of beauty" and "reject the charity ethic." High profile demonstrations led to some charities abandoning their use of such contests for fundraising and also saw some remove offensive language from their organisational titles.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McIntyre |first=Iain |date=2023-04-26 |title=People With Disability Australian Protest Timeline |url=https://commonslibrary.org/people-with-disability-australian-protest-timeline/ |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref>

Following a long nationwide campaign involving hundreds of thousands of people the National Disability Insurance Scheme was introduced in Australia in 2013 to fund a number of supports.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McIntyre |first=Iain |date=2023-04-26 |title=The History of Campaigns in Australia by People With Disability |url=https://commonslibrary.org/the-history-of-campaigns-in-australia-by-people-with-disability/ |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref>

National campaigns by groups such as Every Australian Counts have since been launched to extend the scheme and protect it from cuts and restrictions on access.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Australian Progress |last2=McIntyre |first2=Iain |date=2022-02-02 |title=Lessons from the Campaign to Stop Independent Assessments Webinar |url=https://commonslibrary.org/lessons-from-the-campaign-to-stop-independent-assessments-webinar/ |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref>