As the late, great disability advocate, writer and comedian Stella Young reminded us, valuing difference does not mean adhering to conventional pieties and ignoring the fact that disability presents significant…
Women with Disabilities Australia says that “Working age women with disabilities who are in the labour force are half as likely to find full-time employment (20%) as men with disabilities…
The ride-sharing service Uber announced yesterday it would open its doors to people with disabilities, and hopes thousands will sign up as drivers. Uber said it would partner with Enabled…
Segregation in separate housing, sheltered workshops and in other forms of community life was long deemed to be the best way to treat those with disabilities. But today, the tide…
As the power and recognition of modern psychiatry as a medical field have expanded, so has the way we think about and define different conditions, including autism. The diagnostic criteria…
Children were allegedly locked in cage-like structures at a Victorian special school and restrained with straps at another, triggering separate investigations by the Education Department.
Minister for Housing, Disability & Ageing, Martin Foley today opened the newest Changing Places facility, completed in time for the third term school holidays. Changing Places facilities are larger-than-standard accessible…
This is the final report from the inquiry looking into the impact on service quality, efficiency and sustainability of recent Commonwealth community service tendering processes by the Department of Social…
Madeline Stuart is not your average teen model. For starters, she tends to give photographers and make-up artists a surprising number of hugs and high-fives. And the petite 18-year-old has…
The Andrews Labor Government today signed an historic bilateral agreement with the Commonwealth outlining the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Victoria over the next three years….
A former Department of Human Services disability support worker who sexually abused a number of disabled male clients has been jailed for 12 months.
The Phoenix Institute salesman who knocked on the Easthams’ housing commission door did not want to hear about the Euroa couple’s intellectual disabilities. He was more interested in signing Arthur…
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