A New South Wales Labor government would team up with former Australian of the year Dylan Alcott in a commitment to recruit more than 10,000 people with disabilities to the…
Julie* has been with her partner Simon* for nearly four years. She loves that he is well-read and smart, and that they share an appreciation for art and science. She…
AMA analysis reveals that targeted programs that address hospital exit block could save an estimated $811.6 million to $2.17 billion a year.
As the disability sector grapples with workforce shortages, the Disability Royal Commission is examining what can be done to enhance the capacity of disability service providers to deliver safe and
Festival-goers want music festival organisers to improve accessibility at their events, following a series of blunders at this year’s Laneway Festival. Patrons have told Hack that security at the Sydney
The Royal Commission has published a research report titled Economic Cost of Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability. It estimates that the economic costs of violence, abuse,…
The federal government has announced the country’s first national practice guideline to support autistic children in their early years. The National Guideline for Supporting the Learning, Participation, and Wellbeing of…
The prevailing public perception is that everything people with disability do is a challenge. Sometimes, that is true. In those times, we may ask or say “yes” to a kind…
Australia is lagging other countries when it comes to employing people with disability. A gulf exists between the employment rates of working-aged Australians with and without disability. The gap here
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was designed to be a market-based system that would shift power from government and providers to consumers. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission’s Own
Greenvale’s Tobias Ward-Boas said he couldn’t wipe the smile off his face when he received a call to say he’d landed a job with the Victorian Advocacy League for Individuals…
A La Trobe University research team has been awarded an ARC Linkage Project to the value of $532,680 for a two-year project investigating the lived experience of people with a…
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