Until recently, Australian disability discrimination law was similar to that of the United States and much of the rest of the world: it defined disability relatively narrowly, its penalties for noncompliance were relatively paltry, and it depended on enforcement of lawsuits brought by aggrieved...

The most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Labour force characteristics of people with a disability reveal that the rates of persons in employment with disabilities remain high. The proportion of the Australian population identified with a disability was 20% (4 million) in 2003....