Dr. Joe Travers:

I will start on the last point. It is perceptive in terms of just thinking about the motivations that are driving some of the decisions. We underestimate the power of the deficit medical model, the power of charity welfare and thinking, and the power of grace and favour thinking, as against fully understanding what the human rights model of disability rights means. Across the education system, there has been inadequate deliberation of what a human rights model actually means. We have been so embedded and so enculturated in a welfare and charity-based approach, that this may be one explanation. The Senator also mentioned the finance aspect where institutions look not to spend. That could also be a motivation in schools. That is a possibility.