Emerge Australia’s advocacy team regularly makes submissions and writes reports raising awareness about ME/CFS, long COVID and other energy limiting diseases. We highlight the challenges our community face accessing services and make recommendations for how these challenges can be met.
Click on the title to read our public submissions, where available, below.
2024
- Consultation on Self-Directed Supports Registration (NDIS provider and worker registration)
- Foundational Supports General Supports Consultation
- Inquiry into the Aged Care Bill 2024 – #42
- Review of Australia’s Disability Strategy
- Consultation on draft lists of NDIS Supports
- Australian Human Rights Commission: How were you affected by COVID measures?
- National Chronic Conditions Strategic Framework Refresh
- National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Bill 2024 – #25
- Review of the 2016 Statement on Consumer and Community Involvement in Health and Medical Research
- “Shining a Light on Recommendation 8 from the long COVID inquiry” Roundtable report
- Medicines Repurposing Program
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners: Review of RACGP HANDI guide, “Graded exercise therapy: Chronic fatigue syndrome”
2023
- State of the Nation Refresh
- National Disability Insurance Agency: Review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- National Disability Insurance Agency: Review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Safeguarding Framework
- “What we have heard” Report – NDIS Review
- Royal Australian College of General Practitioners: Proposed review of RACGP HANDI guide, “Graded exercise therapy: Chronic fatigue syndrome”
- Australian Bureau of Statistics: 2026 Census topic consultation
- Department of Social Services: A New Act to replace the Disability Services Act
- Medicare Benefits Schedule Review Advisory Committee Draft Report: Post Implementation Review of Telehealth MBS items
- Refresh of the National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions
2022
- Disability Royal Commission into the Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
- Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport: Inquiry into long COVID and Repeated COVID Infections – #67
- Department of Social Services: Proposed changes to the Disability Support Pension Impairment Tables
- Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Inquiry into Culture and Capability of the National Disability Insurance Agency (submission as part of Neurological Alliance Australia) – #88
- Disability Inclusion Bill Exposure Draft (Victoria)
