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Elizabeth Wright
ABC News
Monday 28th November, 2022
Born with limb difference, like most disabled people, I have experienced stares and unkind comments my whole life. To avoid unwanted attention, I've tried to hide my disability.
Rick Morton.
Saturday Paper
Thursday 1st January, 1970
As senior staff at the National Disability Insurance Agency explain their role in establishing robo-debt, the agency is seeking to expand similar compliance programs targeting people with disability.
Patricia Karvelas
RN Breakfast
Wednesday 23rd November, 2022
Since its establishment in 2019, the Disability Royal Commission has put the spotlight on the public trustee system, exposing countless cases of people losing control of their lives under the
Rhiannon Shine
ABC 7.30
Friday 25th November, 2022
An overhaul of the federal government's controversial Disability Employment Service (DES) could see people with disabilities given more power to rank their job providers.
Eliza Hull
ABC
Thursday 24th November, 2022
With only a quarter of public maternity hospitals reporting adequate services for women with disabilities, Ms Benzie says the time is now to implement disability identification – which would lead
Reuters
Wednesday 23rd November, 2022
The European Space Agency on Wednesday named the first ever "parastronaut" in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space.
Kathy Stevens
WA Today
Tuesday 22nd November, 2022
The cost to restore not just Maddison’s funding to what was “reasonable and adequate” but restore funding for all those people with disabilities before the tribunal, is a pittance in
Chris Coombes
DSC
Tuesday 22nd November, 2022
This big – yet barely publicised – change to NDIS access came this year from a Federal Court decision known as NDIA v D. In late August, the Federal Court
Elizabeth Wright
ABC News
Monday 21st November, 2022
Earlier this year, she applied for the NDIS again, with support from the spina bifida clinic at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. This time she was successful. Soon,
David Armstrong
The Conversation
Friday 18th November, 2022
School is a crucial place to think about friendships for kids with disabilities because, as research confirms, it’s a space where all kids learn to make and maintain friendships. Some
Fatima Olumee
ABC News
Friday 18th November, 2022
The organisation has been footing the bill for registered nursing care since October 2019, when the NDIA notified three residents at Nardy House that their funding for registered nurse care
Sam Nichols and Kirsti Melville
ABC Earshot
Thursday 17th November, 2022
But this all changed earlier this year, when Kim learned that Oscar's funding had been cut, drastically reducing his access to the support and care he'd relied upon. "It just