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Phasing out segregated education, establishing a federal government portfolio for disabilityand creating a disability rights act are among 222 recommendations made by Australia's largest-ever investigation into the lives of people with disability.
Representatives from disability organisations are speaking, after the government gave its initial response to the royal commission's final report.
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That's it for the presser on the royal commission's report into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability so we'll wrap up our live coverage here.
Here are the key moments from the presser on the royal commission's report into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability:
First Peoples Disability Network's Kelly Treloar has thanked First Nations people with disability.
"We also want to thank those, particularly First Nations people, who were able to share their stories with the Disability Royal Commission.
"We want to acknowledge that there were many who couldn't [share their stories] for various reasons.
"We need to take some time to go through those recommendations thoroughly and we need that space to do so. On the offset and I want to echo Jeff [Smith's] words — in the offset it does look positive and we absolutely welcome the recommendation for a First Nations disability forum and it would be made up of the experts which are First Nations people with disability.
"We look forward to working in solidarity with our colleagues and to keep prioritising the voices of First Nations people with disability in all the work that we do moving forward."
South Australian Council on Intellectual Disability Executive Director Felicity Crowther says it is important people with intellectual disabilities have their say.
"People with intellectual disability have told us that it's important to them to be able to make their own decisions, have access to communication supports and be decision-makers in their own lives.
"For that reason we're really pleased to see there is a call for national harmonisation of guardianship laws and decision-making laws within the final report.
"We were pleased to see the recommendations about phasing out segregated housing and employment settings for people with disability."
Skye Kakoschke-Moore says she supports the road map towards inclusive education but the timeline is too long.
"We support this [but] we think there is room to move on the timeline that the government, the royal commission has proposed.
"Twenty-eight years is a long time. 28 years will condemn another two generations of children into a system where segregation prevails and inclusion does not."
Skye Kakoschke-Moore, CEO, Children and Young People with Disability Australia says the report is turning point.
"The release of today's final report of the Disability Royal Commission marks a turning point for children and young people with disability in Australia.
"It has given us choices. It has given the government choices.
"They can invest in a future where all children with disability are fully included in the community, or they can invest in a future where segregation continues to take place."
"We want to see the council be set up by the Federal Government to include people with disability.
"We don't want to advise into any reporting mechanisms or any cancels or oversight bodies that are being developed moving forward.
"We want to be in the room alongside government with the bureaucrats, making the decisions for our lives that impact our lives by us for us."
"We want to see a future that's fully inclusive and a completely desegregated environment and community.
"We want to define what segregation means on our terms for our community, not what other people define as a segregated environment.
"That includes a huge investment in prevention of violence against people with disability, investing in the drivers of violence around community attitudes that sit around our lives and what they look like and why we get excluded, so the children when they are going to a mainstream school, that they're not getting bullied in the playground.
"When we go out on the streets we're not getting abused by strangers on the street.
"And when we go into jobs we're not discriminated against in those jobs on the basis of disability."
President of People with Disability Australia Nicole Lee gave evidence before the royal commission.
She says "today is a huge day for our community".
"It is one that is filled with both pride, but also grief. It is a day where we reflect on everything that we gave to get that royal commission on the national agenda.
"The stories that we told and today is the day where we look at shifting from the interpersonal violence, the individual experience of violence into the next phase of advocacy and activism.
"Now is the day where we move into the next phase of agitating and advocating for a safer future for the future generations so that they do not live a life that we lived and they don't live the exclusion, the violence, the abuse, neglect and the sexual assault and murders that our community have lived and the lives we have lived."
"What sustains me however is the recognition from the commission of the need for significant change.
"That's consistent with what the commission said four and a half years ago, in its opening ceremony, that this commission was about transforming the lives of people with disability, so that we could live lives free from violence and abuse."
Improving accessibility to information and interpreters
Reforming the way the justice system interacts with people with disability
Increasing culturally-safe supports for First Nations people and removing barriers to the NDIS in remote communities
"The message of this report is clear — we do need to do better," Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth told reporters in Adelaide.
The government did not respond to any of the individual recommendations, instead announcing a taskforce to respond to the royal commission.
"It will report through to ministers regularly with an update on progress to be made public early next year, as a staged response to the recommendations is rolled out," Ms Rishworth said.
NDIS Minister Bill Shorten acknowledged while some in the disability sector would have liked a more immediate response, he said the government wanted to make sure it did not rush anything.
"I see this as a moment of national unity. I see this as a moment where we can paint the horizon for people with disability," he said.
People with Disability Australia President Nicole Lee, who gave evidence before the royal commission, said it was "a huge day for our community".
"It is one that is filled with both pride, but also grief. It is a day where we reflect on everything that we gave to get that royal commission on the national agenda," Ms Lee said.
"… today is the day where we look at shifting from the interpersonal violence, the individual experience of violence into the next phase of advocacy and activism."
Call to end segregation
The inquiry has recommended phasing out segregated education and so-called special schools by 2051, segregated employment by 2034, and group homes by 2038.
The six commissioners were split across the three key areas.
Three commissioners, including the two with disability, called for no students to be in segregated schools by the end of 2051.
The remaining three commissioners want the transition to happen, but without a deadline. They also want a closer relationship between the special and mainstream systems.
Four commissioners called for group homes to be phased out. About 17,000 people, mainly people with intellectual disability, live in group homes across the country.
Four commissioners also recommended phasing out segregated employment, including Australian Disability Enterprises, where about 20,000 people, most of whom live with intellectual disability, can be paid just over $2 an hour.
Commissioners also recommended raising sub-minimum wages to at least 50 per cent of the minimum wage.
Rhonda Galbally, a woman who lives with disability, was one of the commissioners.(ABC News: Brendan Esposito)
Disability advocates, who fought for decades to get the inquiry set up, have been eagerly awaiting the report.
The royal commission began in 2019, and held 32 public hearings, which scrutinised the experiences of the 4.4 million Australians who live with disability.
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