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The Federal Government's emergency response plan to COVID-19 made no mention of people living with a disability, a royal commission has heard. Senior Counsel Assisting Kate Eastman SC said people with a disability and their advocates "watched and waited" for the Government to come up with a plan. Ms Eastman said the COVID-19 plan released at the start of the pandemic addressed groups such as the aged care sector and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. But people living with disability were conspicuously absent. The Royal Commission into Disability heard that when there was still no plan by April, a group of some 70 disability organisations issued an open letter imploring the Government to address pandemic measures specifically for the disability sector. Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-1... For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY You can watch more ABC News content on iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1 Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Go deeper on our ABC News In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2 You can also like us on Facebook:   / abcnews.au   Or follow us on Instagram:   / abcnews_au   Or even on Twitter:   / abcnews