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ABC News
Friday 6th October, 2023

Despite one in five Australians living with a disability, the jobless rate for people with disabilities remains stubbornly high. Working aged people with a disability are twice as likely to…

NDIS Review
Wednesday 4th October, 2023

We’ve talked about the need to re-imagine disability supports outside the scheme, and we are thinking of them as a new of category of community wide ‘foundational supports’. Currently, there…

DSC
Wednesday 4th October, 2023

The Disability Royal Commission has made history. To honour this moment and the people who shared their stories, we’re slowing down our pace to make sure we get the analysis…

Inclusion Australia
Wednesday 4th October, 2023

Inclusion Australia believes that everyone should be part of the important conversation about what happens next following the publication of the report. That’s why we have written this Easy Read

Human Rights Watch
Thursday 5th October, 2023

After a four-and-a-half-year national investigation involving over 9,000 accounts and 32 public hearings, an Australian commission issued a comprehensive and incriminating 4,872-page report on abuses against people with disabilities.

ABC News
Wednesday 4th October, 2023

When Tahj Burns is on stage singing to an audience, his shyness melts away and his confidence and charisma shine. The 20-year-old, who lives with autism, says performing as part

SBS
Friday 6th October, 2023

A Greens Senator and prominent disability advocate has described a proposed 30-year phase-out of separate schools for students with disabilities as “wildly inadequate”, calling for the deadline to be brought…

The Age
Friday 29th September, 2023

Disability Royal Commissioner Dr Rhonda Galbally said governments should give significant weight to her own and two colleagues’ lived experience with disabilities when deciding whether to back their call for…

Guardian Australia
Friday 29th September, 2023

Today the 4.4 million members of the disability community woke holding our breath. After four and a half years of the disability royal commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation…

Inclusion Australia
Friday 29th September, 2023

Australia’s National Disability Representative Organisations have released a statement ahead of the release of the Final Report from the Disability Royal Commission. The statement is also available in Easy Read.

Disability Royal Commission
Friday 29th September, 2023

On Thursday 28th September, the Disability Royal Commission handed the Final Report to the Governor General. It was published to the public the next day. The Royal Commission has made…

ABC News
Thursday 28th September, 2023

Whenever Nella Nisco thinks about her daughter Sophia, the first things that come to mind are her smile and laugh. “She was the life of any household she was in,”…