Sort order by
Filters
Former Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson has expressed doubts about the financial viability of the National Disability Scheme (NDIS), which is being trialled in various locations around Australia.
While the history of UD emanates from the disability rights movement of the 1960s in the United States, and the increasing age of the population of most developing countries has…
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates that the average overall cost of mental health problems to developed countries is about 4 per cent of GDP. In Australia, this…
The accepted international view for many years has been to move away from segregating children with special needs in special schools. However, special education seems to be experiencing somewhat of…
Recent articles on The Conversation and in The Guardian question whether inclusive education can do more harm than good – but neither article presents examples of inclusion. Rather, they present…
Bail has been granted to a deaf and intellectually disabled man accused of murder, with a Victorian Supreme Court judge ruling that he has suffered hardship in custody because he…
Violence, abuse and neglect of people with disabilities have historically been driven by exclusion, discrimination and institutionalisation.
A manager at Victoria’s biggest disability services provider Yooralla has been jailed for four years after he was caught by a hidden camera preying on a vulnerable cognitively impaired woman…
Sixty people are on an “exclusion register” and banned from working with people in disability services in Victoria, a parliamentary inquiry into abuse in disability services has heard.
Victoria should take this opportunity to show national leadership by fixing the crisis in disability abuse and establish the best model of oversight and advocacy for the NDIS to follow….
Timothy Hampson, 52, pleaded guilty to four charges, including sexual penetration of a person with a cognitive impairment, and indecent assault.
The proposed legislation is one of 16 recommendations made in a draft report by People with disabilities WA and Developmental Disability WA, based on research following a Senate inquiry into…
Your account section
DARU is auspiced by DAV and VCOSS with funding from the Victorian Government Office for Disability
