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Eleanor Beidatsch
ABC Opinion
Sunday 6th December, 2020
Eleanor Beidatsch has a passion for palaeontology, but that's not as strong as her passion to see more people with disability accepted and succeeding in the sciences. "When I look
Geraldine Doogue
RN Saturday Extra
Saturday 5th December, 2020
New technology is helping people living with severe disabilities to communicate and take back some control of their lives by using their thoughts and neural signs via computers. Former CNN
El Gibbson
Croakey
Tuesday 1st December, 2020
My GP told me to isolate a week or two before the lockdown, after the kind of conversation that I never want to have again. I was lucky: I already
Jess Bell
Human Resources Director
Thursday 3rd December, 2020
Globally, Australia ranks 21 out of 29 among OECD nations for the employment of people with disabilities. A recent research project by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Business School
Nas Campanella and Celina Edmonds
ABC News
Thursday 3rd December, 2020
Sue Grier has always worried about what might happen to her autistic son when she dies, but her concerns have grown due to proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance
Morgan Liotta
RACGP Blog
Wednesday 2nd December, 2020
Ongoing college advocacy for GPs to be involved in the planning, implementation and unending support for their patients accessing the NDIS has been recognised by the committee, with the report
Wendy Williams
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 2nd December, 2020
Research has shown that the biggest barriers people with disabilities face are the negative and limiting attitudes held by the general community. This is something the Attitude Foundation has decided
Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Monday 30th November, 2020
“But the impact of the pandemic on many people with disability, especially those with high support needs, would have been significantly ameliorated if the Australian government had complied fully with
Fran Kelly
RN Breakfast
Tuesday 1st December, 2020
The Disability Royal Commission's issued a scathing report into how government agencies failed disabled Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings point to failures by government officials to consult with
Disability Royal Commission
Monday 30th November, 2020
It was a “serious failure” that no Australian Government agency with responsibility for disability policy, including the Department of Health, made “any significant effort” to consult with people with disability
Fran Kelly
RN Breakfast
Monday 30th November, 2020
In a confronting and honest story, the ABCs disability affairs reporter Nas Campanella tells how she's been told she shouldn't exist because of her disability. She's sharing the story to
Edel Harris
Radi Times
Friday 27th November, 2020
The new series of The Crown is extraordinary in two ways. Not only does the storyline include Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, the Queen’s cousins who both had a learning disability,