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Bryce Pace - Autism Advocate
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Join award winning autism advocate and consultant Bryce Pace as he brings his dynamic, one of a kind, Understanding Autism workshops to Warrnambool.Through these workshops you will have the opportunity…

National Disability Services
Friday 24th May, 2024

In a webinar today the NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce shared their preliminary thinking on the future of provider and worker regulation and sought feedback on three of their…

SBS
Sunday 26th May, 2024

Advocates say older Australians with a disability are being left in situations where they are housebound, struggling financially, or forced into residential care. The eligibility rules for the National Disability…

Summer Foundation
Tuesday 21st May, 2024

On this episode of Reasonable & Necessary, Dr George meets with Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John to understand his position on the changes to the NDIS legislation that are currently before…

Inclusion Australia
Friday 24th May, 2024

There are many lessons that have been learnt from the Disability Royal Commission. Inclusion Australian have added a new resource to their website, where you will find some of the…

Northern Daily Leader
Wednesday 22nd May, 2024

Looming changes to the NDIS will lead to “homogenising” people with disabilities and ignore individual needs for support, advocacy groups warn. Laws before federal parliament seeking to overhaul parts of…

Rights Information and Advocacy Centre
Tuesday 21st May, 2024

The Rights Information and Advocacy Centre (RIAC) and the Barwon Disability Resource Council (BDRC) have officially merged as of today, 20 May, 2024. The merger will consolidate their capabilities in…

Crikey
Friday 17th May, 2024

People with disability are too often seen as problems to be solved, rather than the problem-solvers with agency to act.

Greens
Thursday 15th May, 2014

In last night’s budget, the Labor Government removed $14.4 billion from the National Disability Insurance Scheme. This is a deliberate decision that will leave disabled people and the community worse…

Friday 17th May, 2024

Sara and Jess unpack from DSC what budget night heralded for the disability sector, including: $14.4bn cut from projected NDIS growth, funding to respond to the NDIS Review, consultation on…

The Mandarin
Monday 13th May, 2024

Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth has stressed it is her paramount concern the rights and freedoms of people with disability are at the centre of government efforts. “The rights of…

Wednesday 12th June, 2024, 11am - 12.30pm
Inclusion Australia

The webinar ‘Making Money Decisions Real’ will be a facilitated conversation between Inclusion Australia’s Specialist Advisor, Dariane McLean and Dr Rhonda Faragher AO, Professor in Inclusive Education at the University…