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Making the Disability Royal Commission accessible for witnesses

Nastasia Campanella
Radio National AM
Tuesday 18th February, 2020
As it turns its attention to examining the Australian health system, the Disability Royal Commission is adapting to the needs of the people who are at the centre of this
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PWDA’s call to break down employment barriers

Rebecca St Clair
Disability Support Guide
Tuesday 18th February, 2020

People With Disability Australia (PWDA) have announced a new $100 million proposal to tear down barriers for those with a disability trying to get a job. The proposal has been…

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The second NDIS shock absorber: The disability workforce

Fran Connelley
Probono Australia
Tuesday 11th February, 2020
The NDIS has fundamentally changed the nature of work in this sector, and the reality is that the current funding model is failing to attract and retain a qualified, motivated
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Disabled People Call Out Things Non-Disabled People Don’t Realize Are Offensive

Elyse Wanshel
Huff Post Australia
Wednesday 1st January, 2020

Case in point, on Sunday, the hashtag #YouMightBeAbleistIf began to trend on Twitter, sparking tons of responses from the disability community of everyday and casual instances of ableism they’ve experienced.

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Why the Government blocked a law forcing nursing homes to reveal staff and food budgets

Anne Connolly
ABC Online
Tuesday 11th February, 2020
Some crucial amendments to aged care legislation were introduced which would force nursing home to reveal how they spent their $20 billion of taxpayer funds each year — specifically, how
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Disability pensioners were increasingly drawn into robodebt while scheme was under scrutiny

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Monday 10th February, 2020
Disability support pension recipients were increasingly forced to pay back alleged welfare overpayments as the government’s botched robodebt scheme progressed, despite repeated claims that the program did not target the
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Children’s access to disability funding depending on where they live dubbed ‘developmental apartheid’

Stephanie Dalzell and Michael McKinnon
ABC Online
Thursday 13th February, 2020
Children with developmental delays such as autism have become the victims of postcode discrimination, with some in poorer suburbs waiting hundreds of days for the crucial diagnosis often needed to
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Aussie parents ‘uncomfortable’ with students with intellectual disability in their child’s school

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Monday 10th February, 2020
Endeavour Foundation CEO Andrew Donne said it was shocking that so many people were uncomfortable having their children share a class with a student with an intellectual disability.
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Horsham Aquatic Centre snubbed in sports rorts saga and disability advocates want answers

Sean Wales and Danielle Grindlay
ABC Wimmera
Thursday 6th February, 2020
One of the applications rejected by the Federal Government was a project to improve disability access to Horsham's aquatic centre, in western Victoria, for upgrades that disability advocates rallied for
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NDIS watchdog is fielding nearly 100 allegations of abuse or neglect a week

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Friday 31st January, 2020
Disability advocate says figures from the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission ‘are truly awful and sickening'. Australia’s disabilities services watchdog is fielding nearly 100 allegations of abuse or neglect a
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Australian government releases whitewash report after more than 1,200 people die waiting for disability services

Max Newman
World Socialist Website
Friday 24th January, 2020
In a desperate act of political damage control, the Liberal-National Coalition government last week belatedly released an official review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The report offered a
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Netflix show Atypical and Rain Man don’t tell the real story of living with autism

Nick McAllister
ABC News
Tuesday 21st January, 2020
Authentic representation matters and when creators, writers and the TV networks get these stories wrong, it distorts how society views people with a disability.
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