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Fran Kelly
ABC Radio National Breakfast
Thursday 24th September, 2015

The ride-sharing service Uber announced yesterday it would open its doors to people with disabilities, and hopes thousands will sign up as drivers. Uber said it would partner with Enabled…

Shanna Belott
Huffington Post
Thursday 24th September, 2015

Segregation in separate housing, sheltered workshops and in other forms of community life was long deemed to be the best way to treat those with disabilities. But today, the tide…

Jennifer Sarrett
The Conversation
Monday 21st September, 2015

As the power and recognition of modern psychiatry as a medical field have expanded, so has the way we think about and define different conditions, including autism. The diagnostic criteria…

Henrietta Cook
The Age
Monday 21st September, 2015

Children were allegedly locked in cage-like structures at a Victorian special school and restrained with straps at another, triggering separate investigations by the Education Department.

premiere of Victoria
Media Release
Tuesday 22nd September, 2015

Minister for Housing, Disability & Ageing, Martin Foley today opened the newest Changing Places facility, completed in time for the third term school holidays. Changing Places facilities are larger-than-standard accessible…

Vivien Love
ABC News Online
Monday 7th September, 2015

Madeline Stuart is not your average teen model. For starters, she tends to give photographers and make-up artists a surprising number of hugs and high-fives. And the petite 18-year-old has…

Daniel Andrews
Media Release
Wednesday 16th September, 2015

The Andrews Labor Government today signed an historic bilateral agreement with the Commonwealth outlining the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Victoria over the next three years….

Dan Oakes and Sam Clark
ABC Online
Wednesday 16th September, 2015

A former Department of Human Services disability support worker who sexually abused a number of disabled male clients has been jailed for 12 months.

Henrietta Cook, Michael Bachelard
The Age
Thursday 17th September, 2015

The Phoenix Institute salesman who knocked on the Easthams’ housing commission door did not want to hear about the Euroa couple’s intellectual disabilities. He was more interested in signing Arthur…

Jeremy Story-Carter
ABC Radio National, The Law Report
Monday 14th September, 2015

Are Australians with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) more vulnerable to adverse outcomes in the criminal justice system? the Law Report learns of situations where ASD behaviours has the potential to…

Stephanie Gotlib
The Age
Thursday 10th September, 2015

Despite multiple inquiries, children with disability face significant challenges which continue to deny most a quality education.

Clare Rawlinson
774 ABC Melbourne
Tuesday 8th September, 2015

In a move disability advocates say is another let down, a new apartment block has been approved for development on the site of the former Kew Cottages for people with…