News and blogs

Our Watch and Women with Disabilities Victoria
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
This resource names ableism and gender inequality as the two consistent, intersecting drivers of violence against women and girls with disabilities. It sets out the actions that must be taken
Cathy Reay
Yahoo Life.
Thursday 10th February, 2022
A negative reaction on the first meet unfortunately isn’t uncommon for many of the disabled people I spoke to for this article. Sometimes the experience is awkward; sometimes the date
Nikki Stefanoff
PBA
Monday 7th February, 2022
Called Women in the Workplace, the program is the brainchild of Tara Shekede, founder of Me Plus More — an online resource platform for people living with intellectual or cognitive
Patricia Karvelas
RN Breakfast
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
A new groundbreaking report has revealed alarmingly high rates of violence experienced by women and girls with disabilities, with 65 per cent having experienced violence. Our Watch and Women with
Nick McAllister
ABC News
Sunday 6th February, 2022
"Having dolls visually representing various disabilities helps children feel included, but it also helps them to learn more about people who may be different from themselves, normalising disability in real
George Taleporos
The Guardian
Thursday 3rd February, 2022
And now we’ve had Omicron ripping through our nation, causing mayhem for disabled people who rely on others for daily assistance. January has been a nightmare – battling to get
HRD Australia
Wednesday 2nd February, 2022
The prejudice isn’t just hampering an organization’s DEI efforts, it’s actually costing them top talent. Research from Accenture found that companies that actively employ people with disabilities consistently outperform those
Sophie Yates, Eleanor Malbon, Gemma Carey and Jen Hargrave
ABC News
Wednesday 2nd February, 2022
Women told us being on the NDIS took a lot of time and effort. They said communicating with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) was difficult, and the application process
Department of Social Services (DSS)
Friday 17th December, 2021
The Department of Social Services has been reviewing the ILC program since its transfer from the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to the department in October 2020, to better understand
Tiana Sixsmith
SMH
Tuesday 1st February, 2022
However, when the COVID-19 pandemic started and suddenly the world moved online, barriers I hadn’t even known existed started to fall away. Now, as we step into a new era
Andrew Pulrang
Forbes
Monday 31st January, 2022
If we don’t recognize and deliberately steer away from ableism in responding to Covid-19, the pandemic will never really end for people with disabilities. Instead of being a two or
Lucy Webster
Financial Times
Saturday 22nd January, 2022
The real power of the disability community, however, comes not in the big rally-round but in the slow accumulation of knowledge that accrues from bearing witness to each other’s lives.