Review of the Disability Standards for Education
The majority of our members would be classed as living in rural, remote or very remote areas across Australia. This geographic footprint presents particular challenges for students, their families and carers in accessing appropriate levels of support to allow full engagement with learning opportunities.
Review of the Disability Standards for Education
Submission to the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations in response to the discussion paper A revised methodology for the Australian Apprenticeship Priority List.
ICPA (Aust) believes engaging in Australia’s workforce through Australian Apprenticeships should be an option for any young Australians who have the ability, ambition and motivation to succeed in these vocations, regardless of their socio-economic status or geographic location. However, for many students living in rural and remote areas, it is proving difficult to undertake apprenticeship and training opportunities.
Thriving Kids Program
Children with additional needs—including those with developmental delays, disabilities, learning difficulties, or complex health conditions—are among the most disadvantaged in remote Australia. Without deliberate policy attention, these children risk being left behind in both early childhood and school settings.
Consultation on Universal Outdoor Mobile Obligation (UOMO) draft legislation
Telecommunications are essential to any modern economy, however for far too long people that live, work and are educated in geographically isolated locations have had to put up with a less than equitable situation with regard to their telecommunication access and this has been a core part of ICPA (Aust) advocacy for many years.
Consultation on Universal Outdoor Mobile Obligation (UOMO) draft legislation
National Schools Food and Fibre Education Strategy
A career pathway in agriculture needs to be seen as valued and valuable by students and their families, by educational institutions (both compulsory and post compulsory), by government and by the nation itself.
National Schools Food and Fibre Education Strategy
National Child Safety Review, June 2025
A nationally coordinated approach is crucial for ensuring child safety in education and care services. Government intervention in creating a standardized approach is necessary to address inconsistencies across jurisdictions. Reform is needed to align existing child safety systems.
National Child Safety Review, June 2025
Early Childhood Education and Care (Three Day Guarantee) Bill 2025
ICPA (Aust) seeks a separate geographically isolated IHC Program to cater for geographically isolated families’ early childhood education and care (ECEC) needs as they are very unique and the FA Act lacks the required flexibility and specificity to allow families’ access to the CCS they are eligible for.
Early Childhood Education and Care (Three Day Guarantee) Bill 2025
Draft In Home Care National Guidelines
ICPA (Aust) seeks to separate the IHC Guidelines to suit the three cohorts that IHC attempts to cater for. Geographically isolated (GI) families’ early childhood education and care (ECEC) needs are so different to the other cohorts and while this document attempts to cover all three, it lacks the required flexibility and specificity to do that well for any of the cohorts.
