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A tiny change would help more Australians with disabilities work in film and TV. Why hasn’t it been made?

Steve Dow
Guardian Australia
Monday 17th July, 2023
Programs that are supposed to help workers with disabilities find employment have criteria that means most screen industry jobs are excluded.
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We need psychologists with disability working in mental health

Karan Nagrani, as told to Carol Rääbus
ABC Everyday
Thursday 13th July, 2023
There's a lot of pressure on disability advocates to be mentally strong all the time. As a content creator, there's this self-inflicted pressure to be happy. I took on the
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Practising disability pride

Brimbank & North West - Star Weekly
Tuesday 11th July, 2023

Larissa MacFarlane acquired a brain injury 24 years ago which she said allowed her to become the artist she is today.  The month of July is Disability Pride Month which…

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Henry Lawson and Judith Wright were deaf. Why does that matter?

Amanda Tink and Jessica White
The Mandarin
Wednesday 12th July, 2023
Most of us know Henry Lawson and Judith Wright are icons of Australian literature. But it’s less well-known that they were both disabled. Lawson began to lose his hearing when
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How will the FIFA Women’s World Cup accommodate fans with disabilities

Elizabeth Wright
ABC

Accessibility for people with disabilities has been in the spotlight this year, and disability affairs reporter Elizabeth Wright looks at what FIFA is doing to ensure the World Cup is…

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Parents with disability and their experiences of child protection systems

University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Western Sydney University
Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 11th July, 2023
The report states that the combination of disability and risk is one of the most explicit forms of discrimination parents with disability face. This is magnified for First Nations parents
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NDIS ten Years Special

ABC
Saturday 1st July, 2023
Nas Campanella looks at the successes and failures of the NDIS. Hear from those with lived experience of the scheme, plus Chair of the National Disabilities Insurance Agency Kurt Fearnley
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Disability job providers put on notice

Nas Campanella
aBC
Thursday 6th July, 2023

The Australian government’s new system for judging the quality of disabled employment providers will use independent observers to monitor the performance of the programs.

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Merriwa Grove residents find new homes ahead of northern Victoria disability carer’s closure

Callum Marshall, Mikaela Ortolan, and Sandra Moon
ABC
Thursday 6th July, 2023
Kris was one of 19 residents living at Cobram residential disability facility Merriwa Grove in northern Victoria when it was announced in early June that it would close because it
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Reproductive coercion and abuse

Jasmine MacDonald, Pragya Gartoulla, Mandy Truong, Laura Tarzia and Melissa Willoughby
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Wednesday 24th May, 2023
This practice guide is for non-specialist practitioners working in areas that increase the likelihood of exposure to women experiencing Reproductive coercion and abuse RCA but do not have specialist training
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A decade on, the NDIS has had triumphs, challenges and controversies. Where to from here?

Helen Dickinson
UNSW News
Monday 3rd July, 2023
The idea for such a scheme existed since the Whitlam government in the 1970s, but only really gathered steam after Australia became one of the original state signatories to the
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Sham Martinez likes to be her own boss, as data shows higher rate of entrepreneurship in disability community

Nick McAllister
ABC
Saturday 1st July, 2023
She is not alone, with recent data from the University of Technology Sydney suggesting people with disabilities have a much higher rate of self-employment or entrepreneurship (13.1 per cent) compared
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