Disability Discrimination Act Review – Community Survey

Closes 24 Oct 2025

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Part 2 – Positive duty to eliminate discrimination

This section asks questions about adding a positive duty to the Disability Discrimination Act. Right now, people can only make a complaint after discrimination happens. A proposed change is to introduce a ‘positive duty’. This means:

  • Employers, schools, organisations and businesses must actively prevent discrimination. They shouldn’t just deal with it afterward.
  • The Australian Human Rights Commission may be able to make sure they do this.

This ‘positive duty’ would apply to all duty holders and would be similar to the positive duty that applies to employers to prevent sex discrimination. Duty holders covers a wide range of people and organisations. It includes schools, businesses and workplaces, organisations and services.
 

3. Should the law introduce a ‘positive duty’ for duty holders?

Click here for more information about duty holders

Duty holders means a person or organisation who the Disability Discrimination Act says is not allowed to discriminate against people with disability. This includes employers, schools, accommodation providers and organisations who provide goods and services such as shops.

(Please select one)

4. If you said yes to the previous question, which of the existing categories of duty holders should the positive duty apply to?

(Please select all that apply)