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Advocacy for Inclusion
Thursday 12th October, 2023

The Spring 2023 Edition of the Canberra Disability Review is out now. It’s online and free and has a focus on the justice system and disability. Articles include lived experience…

NDIS Review
Wednesday 11th October, 2023

The NDIS Review panel have received more than 3,800 submissions from participants, their families and those that support them. These are now being published on the NDIS Review website –…

Reasonable and Necessary Podcast
Wednesday 11th October, 2023

On the new episode, Dr George speaks to Alastair McEwin, Former Commissioner, Disability Royal Commission about what the findings of the Commission will mean for the disability community.

The Conversation
Monday 9th October, 2023

The federal government last week released the report of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, which painted a confronting picture and recorded the…

ABC News
Monday 9th October, 2023

Like most year 11 students, Angus Bayley is feeling the pressure of end-of-year exams. But Angus isn’t like every other student — he is in the 25th percentile for processing,

AEC
Monday 9th October, 2023
Monday 16th October, 2023

The Referendum will take place this Saturday 14 October! It is compulsory for all Australians over the age of 18 to vote. The Australian Electoral Commission has this information to…

ABC News
Monday 9th October, 2023

A letter from a stranger and an hour-long meeting is all it took to strip Martin* of his ability to see his family and live in his own home. A

ABC News
Friday 6th October, 2023

Despite one in five Australians living with a disability, the jobless rate for people with disabilities remains stubbornly high. Working aged people with a disability are twice as likely to…

NDIS Review
Wednesday 4th October, 2023

We’ve talked about the need to re-imagine disability supports outside the scheme, and we are thinking of them as a new of category of community wide ‘foundational supports’. Currently, there…

DSC
Wednesday 4th October, 2023

The Disability Royal Commission has made history. To honour this moment and the people who shared their stories, we’re slowing down our pace to make sure we get the analysis…

Inclusion Australia
Wednesday 4th October, 2023

Inclusion Australia believes that everyone should be part of the important conversation about what happens next following the publication of the report. That’s why we have written this Easy Read

Human Rights Watch
Thursday 5th October, 2023

After a four-and-a-half-year national investigation involving over 9,000 accounts and 32 public hearings, an Australian commission issued a comprehensive and incriminating 4,872-page report on abuses against people with disabilities.