Across Australia, people with disability face more discrimination and barriers to employment than people without disability. Addressing this challenge will require government, business, and community coming together to champion a more inclusive employment landscape across Queensland and Australia.
Urbis and QDN released our report on June 3 aiming to ignite a transformative change in employment opportunities for people with disability. We analyse the current employment landscape for people with disability, learn from past mega-events around the world, and provide strategic recommendations to shape and enhance the employment ecosystem leading up to, during, and following the 2032 Games.
Setting realistic and impactful goals and targets resulting from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games requires a baseline of evidence, one that has begun to gather in this report. That 'Game Changers' report is a living document that aims to generate conversations and be used by a range of stakeholders including people with disability, governments, businesses, and community to advocate for an inclusive employment legacy.
To build this legacy, recommendations call on a range of stakeholders to become champions, and we ask everyone to respond to this call to action; we all have a role to play. We believe a legacy in which people with disability will have more opportunity for meaningful employment, sooner, because of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games will not only benefit people with disability, but have wide reaching positive effects across the entire employment ecosystem.
