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Sharon Kerr

Sharon Kerr

Canadian political commentator and guest on the Moose on the Loose podcast

Sep 4, 2026

Yasmine Alwakal
Yasmine AlwakalCORRESPONDENT
1:39
So can you tell me what prompted you to look into some of this research?
1:43
Oh, absolutely.
1:44
Absolutely.
1:45
I'm with a team at Black Ability at the University of Melbourne.
1:49
which is looking to improve the lives of Indigenous people generally living with disability.
1:55
And this was one of the areas that came to our attention of what was happening with Indigenous prisoners living with disability.
2:08
So we applied for a National Disability Research Partnership grant, which gave us seed funding to actually do an evidence synthesis of what had been researched out there.
Yasmine Alwakal
Yasmine AlwakalCORRESPONDENT
6:21
Do you think there should be more continuity between states and territories?
8:50
And looking at the, so the enduring power of attorney, what exactly is the process now in putting this paperwork together? I know it's changed over the
9:06
The new act brought in a new process.
9:08
And as with anything new, it has taken a while for it to bed in.
9:14
And prior to prior to the decision support service being set up, solicitors were the people in the main that you would go to to create the enduring power of attorney with the new system, you know, I suppose within society.
9:27
the legislator saw fit to bring in the system such that people could make their own and make online access available for everyone to do it.
9:36
So that in every home, everybody could access the document to create their own enduring power of attorney.
9:42
And it was digitally designed that it was digitally friendly.

8 MINS LATER

17:58
What is the mechanism for changing it? Say, for example, you appointed someone, one of your children, and you decided that they weren't right for the job.

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