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Reasonable and Necessary Podcast – What to do when your NDIS plan doesn’t meet your needs.

Reasonable and Necessary Podcast
Tuesday 22nd August, 2023

On the new episode of the Reasonable and Necessary Podcast, Dr George Taleporos @drgeorgethecrip speaks with Mitchell Skipsey from Public Interest Advocacy Centre and NDIS participant and activist Felice Vaiani…

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New Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022: Sector briefing

Mental Health Victoria
Tuesday 15th August, 2023
Victoria will have a new Mental Health and Wellbeing Act from 1 September 2023. The new Act replaces the Mental Health Act 2014. It has new rights-based principles that promote
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NDIS Quarterly Reports

NDIA
Monday 8th November, 2021
Data outlined in the latest Quarterly Report highlights significant progress by participants, their families, carers and wider disability networks including participants experiencing increased choice and control, opportunities to participate and
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Restrictive practices: A pathway to elimination

University of Melbourne, University of Technology Sydney and University of Sydney
Tuesday 25th July, 2023

The report describes restrictive practices as physical, chemical or environmental restraints and seclusion that are legally, socially or professionally sanctioned. The report also includes involuntary health treatment, guardianship, financial management,…

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Shine a Light: Understanding vulnerability at the intersection of disability and electricity services

Yarra Energy Foundation
Power outages put customers at risk, affecting their well-being and daily routines. This can lead to distress and challenges in self-care. While we know outages are inconvenient for all customers,
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Rethinking ‘Tier 2’ of the NDIS: Investing in real inclusion of people with disability.

Associate Professor Sue Olney
DANA
Tuesday 1st August, 2023

This Discussion Paper addresses the problems currently impacting this focus area, the evidence available, and the proposed solutions to these problems.

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Disability Pride Starts Here

Youth Disability Advocacy Service
Friday 28th July, 2023
This project features content and resources about disability pride created by disabled young people. It aims to encourage all Victorians to see disability as a strength. Shifting the community perception
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The difference between unfair treatment and unlawful discrimination

DARU
Tuesday 18th July, 2023
Many people with disabilities face barriers in accessing systems and are treated unfairly. But when is it simply unfair or unjust treatment, and when is it unlawful? Is it a
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Having a go: Making individualised living a reality

NDIA in partnership with Scope
Monday 17th July, 2023
This home and living capacity building report is part of working to develop a new approach to home and living. The research explores supports NDIS participants use to build their
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Access Hub: Helping you connect

Access Hub provides information about communication options and services to assist you to make a phone call and connect online, including the National Relay Service, for people who are d/Deaf,
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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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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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