This study investigated the interconnections between housing, community infrastructure and quality of life for Indigenous people living with disability. It incorporated three case studies from Yalata and Point Pearce in…
The 2016 Census has revealed an increase in the number of children with disability, up nearly 40,000 since 2011. One explanation is that the census now counts disability differently, which…
One Nation leader and senator Pauline Hanson has suggested it would be better for teachers if students with autism and disability were put in special classrooms.
Disability advocates and politicians have slammed One Nation senator Pauline Hanson’s call for children with autism and disabilities to be removed from mainstream classrooms, saying the “hurtful” idea would amount…
Key points: 26 independent schools for children with special needs will receive extra funding under Gonski 2.0 Funding for children with special needs in public schools will double by 2027…
Last year, The Feed did a story about my work as a circus performer, and about how I perform with partial sight (you can watch it below). Patrick (the reporter)…
Major organisations including St Vincent De Paul Society, Anglicare and the National Congress of Australia’s First People have thrown their support behind calls for a royal commission into the abuse…
Susy Yates is a hardworking and respected member of the House With No Steps but it was not always this easy for her. Ms Yates, who has Down syndrome, said…
The co-chief executive of People With Disability Australia, Matthew Bowden, has welcomed Labor’s announcement, saying violence against people with a disability was at “epidemic levels”.
Given the National Disability Insurance Scheme has support across the political spectrum there is a reluctance to heavily criticise it despite a parliamentary inquiry which is revealing that the system…
Despite, or perhaps because of, the limited knowledge of disability by policy makers, politicians, and journalists seven years ago, NDIS was seized upon as a “solution” to the systemic dysfunction…
The revelation earlier this year that hundreds of thousands of students with a disability are in school without any additional funding to support their education has been reinforced by new…
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