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Campaign to change social attitudes towards people with disabilities was inspired by writer, comedian and advocate Stella Young, who died in December.
Many children are being let down by the education system as the rise in autism and behavioural disorders strains the resources of mainstream and special schools. Ann Arnold follows the…
Australian building legislation does not currently mandate an inclusive approach to the safe evacuation of buildings. This poses a significant risk for the 20 per cent of the population with…
As we transition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme there is a real fear advocacy services will become harder to access. This, at a time when their services will be…
Drivers who use disabled parking spaces illegally should lose demerit points as well as face a fine, South Australia’s Dignity for Disability Party says.
A new Guide Dogs Victoria survey found two-thirds of guide dog handlers faced discrimination in the past year, including at shopping centres and cafes. Legally, the only place guide dogs…
New data shows that in the whole of Melbourne there is only one suburb where a woman on an average weekly wage can rent a two-bedroom home and not be…
Adding the audio description tool is a good move but more could be done for disabled TV watchers, say policy advocates.
As I leave the disabled bathroom behind, a mother glares at me. “You shouldn’t be using that,” she says. “That’s for disabled people only.” When this happens, as it regularly…
Despite rapes, deaths and neglect in care, the disability sector is obsessed with self-protection. The Age has recently detailed horrendous events that occurred in a disability house in the 1980s…
In 2014, the Commonwealth government asked the National Mental Health Commission to review Australia’s mental health programs and services. Although the review was submitted in November 2014, the government has…
In Canberra today, the committee heard that parents with a disability often had their children taken from them straight after birth, and that those children were left in the foster…
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