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Diverse Learners Hub

Department of Education
Victoria Government
Thursday 27th April, 2023
The Hub is an online resource that provides information, tools and guidance on diverse learning, including: - understanding autism and how schools support autistic students - understanding the different types
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Speak My Language (Disability)

Ethnic Communities' Council of NSW in partnership with all Ethnic and Multicultural Councils across Australia
Tuesday 18th April, 2023
This resource involves hundreds of people from culturally diverse communities talking about living well with a disability in 24 languages. The power of storytelling is harnessed through podcast and radio
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Social Security (Tables for the Assessment of Work-related Impairment for Disability Support Pension) Determination 2023

Federal Register of Legislation
Saturday 1st April, 2023
The Determination 2023 sets out the rules decision-makers must use when assessing a person’s work-related impairment for the Disability Support Pension (DSP) under the Social Security Act 1991. A number
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Capability and Culture of the NDIA Interim Report

Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Friday 31st March, 2023
The committee is particularly moved by evidence that participants feel distressed, frustrated, and unheard when planners do not understand their lived experience of disability. Planners are a key interface between
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Review of procurement and contracting

Services Australia
Tuesday 28th March, 2023
The Independent Review of Services Australia and the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) Procurement and Contracting examined the procurement processes leading to the award of contracts to Synergy 360 and
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Toolkit: Inclusion is Everyone’s Business

Early Childhood Intervention Australia
Sunday 26th March, 2023
This toolkit provides practical tips and resources that are easy to use. They are designed to build the knowledge and confidence of teams working within any service or program for
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State of Incarceration: Insights into Imprisonment in Victoria (

Justice Reform Initiative
Friday 24th March, 2023
This report lays bare the failures of Victoria’s criminal justice system in a comprehensive assessment that reveals “jailing is failing”. It is increasingly clear that in Victoria, the growth in
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We Can All Be Leaders Podcast

Women with Disability Australia Youth Network
Saturday 21st August, 2021
The podcast series talks about the importance of young people’s involvement, advocating as young people with disabilities and being in feminist spaces where disability is not always at the forefront.
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Outcomes associated with ‘inclusive’, ‘segregated’ and ‘integrated’ settings for people with disability

Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 7th March, 2023
The research report looks at what should be done to make a more inclusive society that supports people with disability to be safe and independent. It considered several questions about
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Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021–2031 Outcomes Framework: First annual report

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Tuesday 28th February, 2023
The report provides an overview of all measures being tracked under Australia’s Disability Strategy at ‘baseline’ – that is, when the Strategy began in December 2021. Moving forward, baseline data
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Unregistered NDIS Providers: What Participants Really Think – Reasonable & Necessary with Dr George

Summer Foundation
Wednesday 2nd March, 2022

Did you know that NDIS participants over all spend about 60% of our funding on unregistered providers. And this number is growing. On this episode of Reasonable and Necessary, Dr…

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ECCV’s submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

ECCV
Wednesday 2nd March, 2022
The submission makes 33 recommendations about how the Commonwealth and State Governments, and service providers including education, employment, health and disability services, can take responsibility to uphold human rights, ensure
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