The National Awards for Disability Leadership recognise outstanding achievement or outcomes by people with disability and organisations that have contributed to advancing the status of people with disability.
The awards reflect what is important to people with disability and the ways these are effecting change and pursuing equality for the community.
Awards are delivered across seven categories intended to show the diversity of the community, designed by people and their representative organisations around key areas of work.
The categories are:
- The Arts – advancing the status of people with disability through artistic expression
- Change Making – achieving equality for people with disability through policy, programs or legislation
- Rights Activism – advancing the status of people with disability using human rights mechanisms
- Innovation – achieving outcomes to the status of people with disability by working outside the box, developing new systems technology or tools
- Social Impact – achieve visibility of people with disability using mainstream, social media or digital interfaces
- Inclusion – illustrating the intersectional diversity of people with disability by designing processes, systems or programs
- The Lesley Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement – to an individual who has shown commitment to the disability rights movement and worked to achieve significant outcomes for people with disability.
To nominate someone for a National Award for Disability Leadership go to: official nomination form. Nominations close October 21, 2022.