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Access to courts that most take for granted can be a challenge for many Border people with a disability. It can come down to something as seemingly straightforward as getting…
Disability advocates need to help their clients stay informed and navigate the complexities of the new NDIS to make sure no one misses out, those attending a recent DARU forum…
“Australians with disabilities would be lifters, if there were not barriers in society that force us to lean every day. I have challenged this my whole life.” Outgoing Australian disability…
Police asked a disabled man to leave the foyer of the ABC at Southbank in Melbourne during a protest against the axing of the disability website, Ramp Up. About 20…
It was announced recently that the ABC’s disability website, Ramp Up, launched in 2010, will be scrapped by the end of the month. Seed funding for the website — provided…
The disability movement in Australia has taken some significant steps forward over the last three years. When Kate Larsen moved from London to Melbourne three years ago, she was surprised…
Can we change the world with a click and a share? Engaging in online activism can’t replace putting a face to a name or chatting over a cuppa, but it…
We like to be different, but not too different, to fit in yet still be individual. It’s a tension that gets played out in various ways. By parents who want…
The reassessment of people on the disability support pension is always going to be a problem,” Ms Young said. “It doesn’t necessarily create jobs in the labour market, it doesn’t…
The Human Rights Commission appears on a collision course with the Federal Government, disability advocates and those in the disability employment sector, after its decision on how wages should be…
National peak disability and advocacy groups condemn the decision by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) to allow the Australian Government and sheltered workshops (also known as Australian Disability Enterprises…
Former Telethon child Prue Hawkins has been told she is not impaired enough to get the disability support pension. A leader among WA’s disabled community, the 33-year-old wheelchair user has…
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