356

Disability Royal Commission and Other Support Services

To provide funding for entities to provide one or more of the following:

(a) support services (including advocacy services) to assist persons to make submissions to, and appear before, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability;

(b) support services (including counselling and referral services) to assist persons traumatised or otherwise affected, directly or indirectly, by:

(i) violence towards a person with a disability; or

(ii) the abuse, neglect or exploitation of a person with a disability; or

(iii) the Royal Commission, whether or not they participate in it;

(c) support services of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) that are designed to meet the specific needs of Indigenous Australians;

(d) training, including training materials, to those who provide the services mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for measures:

(a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(b) for the provision of sickness benefits or medical services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or

(c) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or

(d) to give effect to Australia's obligations under one or more of the following:

(i) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly Articles 4, 16 and 29;

(ii) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 4, 23 and 24;

(iii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 12; or

(e) done in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth; or

(f) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.

439

Seniors Connected--Village Hubs

To provide funding to support the establishment and operation of community-based organisations offering social, physical and other activities or opportunities to older Australians, to:

(a) address loneliness and isolation among older Australians, in order to reduce the incidence of mental health issues in the ageing population; and

(b) facilitate healthy ageing; and

(c) assist older Australians to participate in cultural and community life;

to give effect to Australia's obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2, 12 and 15.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for measures:

(a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(b) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.