“People have experienced a lot of fear, illness, isolation and neglect,” explained Dominic Golding, policy officer at National Ethnic Disability Alliance.

“COVID has had a really big impact on where we feel secure and safe.”

The National Ethnic Disability Alliance, along with Australia’s seven other national disability peak organisations, has endorsed a COVID-19 Recovery Plan for people with disability that would see their needs taken into account in decision making as the pandemic rolls on.