Tasmanian Disability Inclusion Plan - Consultation

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What are we consulting about?

We need a plan!

The Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Act 2024 (Tas) says the government must create a plan that enables people with disability to be more included and supported in Tasmania. This plan will be called the Tasmanian Disability Inclusion Plan.

The first plan is for four years and must be prepared by 1 July 2026.

The plan will be developed in collaboration with people with disability.

This means we need help from the Tasmanian community, and particularly Tasmanians with disability, to share ideas, and work with us to create the plan.

We need to hear from you so that we can get the plan right.

Discussion paper

We have written a discussion paper called Towards a Tasmanian Disability Inclusion Plan. The discussion paper collects what we have heard from you before, tells you about what we are already doing and asks questions that will tell us what you want to include in a new plan. The paper is provided below in various formats.

If you would like us to provide the discussion paper to you in a different way, including a translated version in another language please contact us by phone 1800 431 211 or email disability@dpac.tas.gov.au

Audio

Audio files - Towards a Tasmanian Disability Inclusion Plan

The total recording is approximately 1.5 hours and has been broken into 14 sections in line with the contents of the discussion paper.

Auslan

Transcript to accompany Auslan video

Towards a Tasmanian Disability Inclusion Plan.

Easy Read Discussion Paper.

November 2025.

How to use this paper

The Tasmanian Government wrote this paper.

When you see the word ‘we’, it means the Tasmanian Government.

We wrote this paper in an easy to read way.

We wrote some hard words in bold.

This means the letters are thicker and darker.

We explain what the hard words mean.

You can ask for help to read this paper.

You could ask a friend, family member, support person or advocate.

Acknowledgement of Country

We recognise First Nations peoples as the traditional owners of the land we live on – Lutruwita/Tasmania.

They were the first people to live on and use the:

land
waters

Support for you

Lifeline is a service for people at risk of suicide.

This is when someone ends their own life.

You can call Lifeline any time on 13 11 14

13YARN is a service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who need help.

You can call 13YARN any time on 13 92 76

Beyond Blue is a service that can support you with your mental health.

You can call them any time on 1300 224 636

1800Respect is a phone service for people around Australia who experience:

domestic and family violence
sexual violence

You can call them any time on 1800 737 732

The Disability Gateway is an information service for people with disability.

You can call them Monday to Friday 8 am – 8 pm on 1800 643 787

About this paper

Tasmania has a new law called the Tasmanian Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Act.

The Act says we must make a plan to:

Make your human rights stronger.
Make sure you can take part in your community.

The plan is called the Tasmanian Disability Inclusion Plan.

In this paper we call the Tasmanian Disability Inclusion Plan the Plan for short.

We are writing the Plan now.

The Plan will start on 1 July 2026.

We want to know what you think should be in the Plan.

You can tell us what should be in the Plan in different ways.

This paper has questions to help you think about what should be in the Plan.

You can tell us what should be in the Plan until 10 March 2026.

We will be asking what should be in the Plan in different ways.

Sending a submission

You can tell us what should be in the Plan by sending us a submission.

A submission is telling us what you think about something.

You can make a submission in the way that works for you.

A submission can be:

In writing
A video
A voice message
A drawing or a poem

You can answer the questions in this paper in your submission.

You don’t have to answer all the questions.

You can choose to answer the questions that are most important to you.

Submissions should be sent to disability@dpac.tas.gov.au

Sessions

We will be having in-person and online sessions to ask people with disability what should be in the Plan.

These sessions will include:

Webinars
Meetings with groups
Forums

Information about these sessions can be found on www.dpac.tas.gov.au/disability-inclusion-plan

You can email us at disability@dpac.tas.gov.au to ask for information about our sessions.

What we heard

We have already asked what was important to you in:

The Disability Royal Commission
The NDIS Review.Australia’s Disability Strategy
The Tasmanian Disability Rights, Inclusion and Safeguarding Act

You told us you wanted to:

Feel safe
Be included
Live somewhere you like
Be able to go to places like school and the doctor
Get a job
Be able to access your community by using the bus

Questions

Feeling safe and included

What makes you feel:

Safe?
Included?

Understanding disability

How can we help other people understand disability better?

Information and decisions

What makes it easy for you to understand information?

Where do you get your information from?

What is the best way to ask you what is important to you?

What makes it easier for you to make decisions?

Transport

How can we make it easier for you to access the community?

For example:

On the bus?
In a taxi?

Education

How can we make school better for children and young people with disability?

How can we make it easier to learn things as an adult?

Health Services

Health services are places such as:

GPs
Hospitals
Dentists

How can we make it easier to access health services?

What does a good health service look like?

Criminal Justice System

The criminal justice system includes:

police
the courts
prisons

How can we make it better for you in the criminal justice system?

Employment

How can we make it easier for you to get a job?

How can we make you feel safe at work?

Housing

How can we make it easier for you to live where you want?

Services

What services are most important to you?

How can services better support you?

How can we make services better for people with disability who also:

Are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander?
Are LGBTQIA+?
Are older?
Have different beliefs?
Speak a different language?

General

Is there anything else we could include in the Plan about being a person with disability in Tasmania?

Contact

You can contact us about this paper.

Email disability@dpac.tas.gov.au

Phone 1800 431 211

You can find more information at www.dpac.tas.gov.au/disability-inclusion-plan

How to have your say

By being part of this consultation, you will be helping Tasmania have a strong plan for an inclusive future for all Tasmanians with disability.

You can share your thoughts in writing, through audio or video, or in person at consultation events. You don’t need to answer every question, just tell us what matters most to you.

Consultation is open until 10 March 2026.

Make a submission

You can make a submission responding to all or some of the questions in the discussion paper.

You can do this as an individual, a group or on behalf of an organisation.

We encourage you to be as creative as you like. This could be a written statement, a telephone conversation, an email, a video or an audio file. In the past we have received poems. Whatever helps you to say what you want to say.

Where possible, please provide written submissions in an accessible format such as Microsoft Word or equivalent.

Email your submission to: disability@dpac.tas.gov.au

Take the survey

The survey is one of the many options you have for providing feedback. The survey questions have been taken directly from the Towards a Tasmanian Disability Inclusion Plan (TDIP) discussion paper.

If you’d like to provide input through the survey, you can do so below:

Other ways to join in

You may also wish to take part in a mix of online and in-person consultation sessions to be held across the state. Details of these events will be available soon and will include:

webinars
focus groups
forums and meetings.

Check back here for updates.

Publication of submissions

We will consider all submissions to help us develop the Plan.

When making a submission you must tell us which level of privacy you want for all or parts of your submission. The privacy levels are:

(1) Public – means you are happy for us to put your submission online and use your name
(2) Anonymous - means you are happy for us to put your submission online, but not to publish your name
(3) Confidential - means you don’t want your submission to be put online. If you choose confidential, please let us know why

Unless you tell us your submission is confidential, all submissions will be published on the Department of Premier and Cabinet’s website as per the Tasmanian Government’s Public Submissions Policy.

While confidential submissions are not published on the website, they are no less important than public ones.

We will remove the following items from submissions before they are published on our website:

Personal residential addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers
Derogatory or offensive (rude) language
Comments impugning the personal character and/or professional reputation of individuals and organisations – meaning rude or mean comments about people or organisations
Information that is confidential or not legally allowed to be shared
Any other materials not allowed by law

The views in submissions belong to the individuals or organisations who submit them. Putting a submission online does not mean that we accept or agree with these views.

Contact us

Disability and Reform

Email: disability@dpac.tas.gov.au

Phone: 1800 431 211

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