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Australians with disability twice as likely to be evicted without cause

Luke Michael
Pro Bono Australia
Wednesday 5th December, 2018
A report by Choice, National Shelter and the National Association of Tenant Organisations (NATO) examined the consumer experience of renting in Australia, and found renters with disability faced a range
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Enabling Risk: Putting Positives First Online Program

La Trobe University Living with Disability Research Centre
Saturday 1st September, 2018
​This resource is designed to provide an introduction to enabling risk. You will be introduced to the ways you can support people with cognitive disabilities, including people with intellectual disabilities
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VicHealth Indicators Survey Supplementary report: Disability

Vic Health
Monday 3rd December, 2018
The survey collected information on a range of factors known to influence individual and community wellbeing including safety, mental wellbeing, physical activity, healthy eating and alcohol consumption. The results show
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Putting disability and leadership in the same sentence

Maggie Coggan
Pro Bono Australia
Monday 3rd December, 2018
When disability advocate and entrepreneur, Christina Ryan, realised workplace programs helping people with disability into leadership roles were non-existent, she got angry. And then she started the Disability Leadership Institute,
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Celebrating remarkable Stella Young — writer, comedian and advocate for people with disabilities

Eliza Hull
ABC Life
Monday 3rd December, 2018
A writer, comedian and advocate, she gave voice to issues relevant to the many Australians living with disability. Stella wrote for ABC for a number of years and was editor
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Poor disability support practices highlighted

DSC (Disability Services Commissioner)
Thursday 20th December, 2018
The DSC (Disability Services Commissioner) 2018 annual report and review of disability service provision to people who have died 2017–18 was tabled in Victorian Parliament on the 19/12/2018.
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Contextual issues in the implementation of mental health legislation

RuthVine, FionaJudd
Science Direct
Sunday 11th November, 2018

An new article in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry explores how changes to Victorian legislation improving human rights have been limited by under-investment and policy failures across the

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Guide to NDIS decision-making

OPA (Office of the Public Advocate)
Monday 1st January, 2018
A guide to outline when decision-making support, advocacy and substitute decision-making will be needed for potential and current NDIS participants who have significant cognitive disability.
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When a mother steals her daughter’s right to parent with a forced hysterectomy

Eliza Hull
ABC Life
Monday 26th November, 2018
Chanelle McKenna was a typical 11-year-old girl. Since she was a baby, she's had cerebral palsy. It was at age 11 her mother agreed, in unison with medical professionals and
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Grieving parents to fulfil vow to late son at NDIS inquiry

Fiona Blackwood
ABC News
Thursday 22nd November, 2018
A Tasmanian couple has given evidence before a Federal Government inquiry to fulfil a promise they made to their dying son.
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The patient had planned his suicide. But the crisis team was busy

Aisha Dow
The Age
Thursday 15th November, 2018
Victoria's crisis assessment and treatment teams are the front line for the most mentally unwell people in the state, but GPs who try to get hold of them often can’t
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National Disability Insurance Scheme systems and processes not working well, providers say

Lexi Metherell
ABC News
Tuesday 20th November, 2018
The disability sector is suffering "a silent crisis" under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), some providers have told a study released today.
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