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Our Principles

• Our starting point is to be found in the lived experience of people with disability.
• We prepare our advice harnessing the wisdom, insight and skills of our Council members and staff team.
• We are mindful of the past and aware of the present as we work together for a better future for all people with disability and their associates.
• We respect the choices made by people with disability in determining how and with whom they live and form relationships.
• We value highly the cultural and linguistic diversity within the population of people with disability.
• We acknowledge, support and work to promote the legal rights of people with disability.
• We believe that the interests of all people in society are best served by establishing equality of opportunity for people with disability.
• We work to encourage a multiplicity of possibilities for the lives of people with disability based on informed choice and freely expressed aspirations.
• We prefer to work towards our goals through partnership with people and organisations committed to a shared purpose.
• We constantly strive to improve our own performance.
• We listen carefully.
• We are accessible and inclusive in the ways we work.
• We are open and honest in our relationships.
• We are accountable to our stakeholders for how we behave, what we say or do and how we conduct our business, including the spending of public money.
• We will ensure that everything we do is consistent with the obligations placed upon us by the Community Welfare Act of 1987 Section 16 (2).

Our Key Result Areas

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