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Mirage News
Friday 1st March, 2024

RMIT’s ground-breaking Skills in Employment Program (SKiP) has achieved a major milestone, successfully placing over 500 job seekers in employment opportunities in the aged care and disability sectors. A collaboration…

Wednesday 6th March, 2024, 12pm - 1.30pm
Women With Disabilities Australia

Special Peer Networking Event next week! Join the LEAD team next Wednesday, March 6th 2024 on Zoom from 12pm to 1:30pm AEDT. The topic is “International Women’s Day 2024”. An…

ABC News
Thursday 29th February, 2024

Many are calling for increased support to help people living with disability cope with the health impacts of extreme hot weather. The Minister for the NDIS, Bill Shorten, has received…

Monday 18th March, 2024, 2pm - 3pm
Melbourne Disability Institute

What works and what needs to be done to ensure that the rights outlined in our existing laws are able to realised in practice.

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Tuesday 27th February, 2024

The Home and Living Section of the Review is just eight pages long, has three major principal recommendations, and has 28 actions required of the federal government. These statistics could…

Women With Disabilities Australia
Tuesday 26th March, 2024

Earlier this year Women With Disabilities Australia submitted their response to the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (Disability Royal…

People With Disability Australia
Monday 26th February, 2024

For over four and a half years our disability community, laid bare throughout the Disability Royal Commission (DRC) the violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation we have endured and continue to…

ECCV
Wednesday 28th February, 2024

ECCV and the Migrant Resource Centre North-West Region are delivering workshops to empower and improve self-advocacy skills for migrants and refugees living with a disability. The Raise Our Voices –…

Office of Public Advocate
Wednesday 28th February, 2024

The distressing state of affairs for adults with disability and mental health issues in Victoria has been highlighted in the 2022-2023 Community Visitor Annual Report, presented in Parliament this month.

Friday 19th April, 2024, 10am - 2.30pm
Youth Disability Advocacy Service
0472 635 607

Due to popular demand, YDAS’s Together: Access & Inclusion Training is back with tickets on sale NOW! If you work or want to work with young people, disabled people or…

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Tuesday 20th February, 2024

This article is a part of a series exploring the inner details of the NDIS Review recommendations and there have been few as controversial as mandatory registration. Recommendation 17 of…

NDIS
Tuesday 20th February, 2024

Minister for the NDIS, Bill Shorten, and WA Minister for Health, Amber-Jade Sanderson, visited Inklings, an innovative early intervention program funded for $13.8 million by the National Disability Insurance Agency…