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Micheline Lee
The Monthly
Monday 4th September, 2017
The NDIS promised choice and control but what is it really delivering? In this essay, Micheline Lee shares her experience of living with disability her whole life and how accessing
Gary Kerridge
The Rebuttal
Wednesday 6th September, 2017

Australia’s Disability Laws is set up based on the person with disability having to make a complaint. It is up to the person with disability to challenge discrimination when it

ANROWS
Thursday 7th September, 2017
This research report aims to help tertiary response services to respond effectively to the needs of women with disabilities. Women with disabilities who have experienced violence seek help and support
Heather Down
Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday 5th September, 2017

Despite her own deafness, Elena Down became a leading legal expert in developing agreements safeguarding the rights of disabled people.

Dan Conifer
ABC News
Saturday 26th August, 2017
Complaints about the National Disability Insurance Scheme have soared by about 700 per cent in the past year. Reports to the Commonwealth Ombudsman jumped from 62 in 2015-16 to 429
Christopher Knaus
The Guardian
Saturday 26th August, 2017

Disability groups say the increasing number of complaints about the national disability insurance scheme reflects a “planning process in crisis”. The number of complaints about the NDIS made to the…

ABC Radio Breakfast Hobart
Monday 21st August, 2017
new film Defiant Lives directed by Sarah Barton charts the history of disability rights activism around the world. The film reveals just how much in our world has changed due
 Miki Perkins
The Age
Monday 21st August, 2017
Robin and Bernard Shanahan are exhausted. They've been lobbying on behalf of their two children with disabilities for decades. Now in their seventies, they'd like to enjoy a well-earned retirement.
Wendy Williams
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 23rd August, 2017
An attempt by the National Disability Insurance Agency to appeal a ruling that the agency must fully fund supports accepted as “reasonable and necessary” under the National Disability Insurance Scheme,
Zoe Ferguson
ABC Radio National Breakfast
Wednesday 23rd August, 2017
Around one in five Australians live with a disability — and like the rest of the ageing population, they'll require end of life care when they become ill. But close
Nine News
Monday 14th August, 2017

At just seven years of age Daniel was expelled from his Victorian government school. Daniel has autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, anxiety and depression and his conditions make him more likely

 Henrietta Cook
The Age
Thursday 17th August, 2017

Julianne Bugeja recently filmed her daily encounter with a locked gate at University Park Primary, which prevents access to her daughter living with spinal muscular atrophy. This means that Alyssa,