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Each year, 200 Australians under the age of 50 are admitted into nursing homes. Young people in aged care facilities have limited opportunity to make the everyday choices that most…
The report is the culmination of a 13-month comprehensive inquiry into Victoria’s response to family violence by the Royal Commission. The Commission’s 227 recommendations are directed at improving the foundations…
Dangerous Deeds features art developed by people with disabilities which explores their passions and tells the stories of their involvement in the disability, advocacy and self advocacy movements. This collection…
Using the NDIS to address the large housing shortage for people with disability will depend on the ability of housing providers to access significant amounts of capital from the private…
A Victorian special school that placed a child who suffered seizures in a pen has been cleared of wrongdoing after an investigation.
Jane has an intellectual disability, and over her lifetime she’s suffered unrelenting sexual and physical abuse by six different male perpetrators. She is far from alone. On the contrary, 90…
Suspected child molesters have walked free because their disabled victims lack the capacity to be cross-examined in court, a senior police officer has told an inquiry.
Violence, abuse, and neglect of Australia’s disabled people is at an epidemic level, national rights and advocacy organisation People with Disability Australia has said in a detailed submission to the…
Mobility taxis for the disabled are no longer commercially viable and the number of wheelchair accessible cabs will likely be cut, the Melbourne taxi industry has warned. Ride-sharing service Uber…
Thirteen disability groups have issued a joint plea to Jacinta Allan, Victoria’s public transport minister, not to legalise Uber unless the ride-share service makes a legally binding commitment to serve…
The child sexual abuse Royal Commission has heard that the demands of a criminal case mean many children with a disability never see their abuser convicted. The commission is examining…
Two special guests, Jess Richter, from the RMIT Centre for Innovative Justice and Christina Ryan, CEO of Advocacy for Inclusion, talk about their advocacy projects which are about seeking justice…
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