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Disabled Australians over $100 worse off a week, report finds

Katie Burgess
Canberra Times
Tuesday 17th September, 2019
Those with a mild disability would need an extra $87 per week at least to have the same standard of living as other Australians, while those with a profound or
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Concerns over disability support in Australia brought to the UN

RN Breakfast
Tuesday 10th September, 2019
An Australian delegation has travelled to Geneva to highlight concerns about the lack of support services for people with a disability in this country. The group will address a United
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Australian advocates travel to UN to highlight discrimination against migrants with disabilities

SBS
Thursday 12th September, 2019
A group of Australians with disabilities have travelled to Geneva to tell a UN committee about their experiences of discrimination and call on the government for more support for the
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Record number of people with a disability being forced onto Newstart

Norman Hermant and Loretta Florance
ABC
Thursday 12th September, 2019
Disability Advocacy Network Australia CEO Mary Mallett said the shift towards Newstart is a "huge concern" because there is a significant financial difference between the DSP and Newstart.
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NDIS like a runaway train: Shorten

Nine News
Saturday 31st August, 2019
"Today's revelations ... of senior executives in disability services dining out on the disabled is yet again another symptom of the core problem ... there is sickness at the heart
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‘It felt like a prison’ – too many young Australians are still stuck in nursing homes

Insight
SBS
Monday 9th September, 2019
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety turns its attention this week to hearings focused on younger people with disabilities living in residential aged care facilities. Around 6,000
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The Aged Care Royal Commission is an opportunity to permanently eliminate the need for young people to enter residential aged care

Luke Bo'sher
Pro Bono News
Tuesday 10th September, 2019
Ahead of giving evidence at the Aged Care Royal Commission hearings in Melbourne this week, Luke Bo’sher outlines his key arguments around why young people end up in aged care
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Why compassion rather than discrimination should inform our permanent visas policies

SBS
Sunday 8th September, 2019
Australia has changed the way it decides whether children with Down syndrome and other conditions, can migrate permanently to Australia. But the changes don’t go far enough, according to Mary
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‘A human need’: Disability groups say people on NDIS should have access to sex workers

Judith Ireland
SMH
Saturday 7th September, 2019

Four of Australia’s major disability groups argue the NDIS needs a “sexuality policy” to cover a broad range of needs such as adaptive sex toys, services from sex workers and…

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Many sick and disabled people are refused permanent visas. We need compassion not discrimination

Mary Crock
The Conversation
Friday 6th September, 2019
Australia can ensure immigration does not result in undue burden without ditching fairness and humanity. A good starting point would be “nett benefit” health rules that measure a migrant’s contributions
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Advocacy groups call for NDIS to fund sexual supports

Judy Skatssoon
Australia Ageing Agenda
Thursday 5th September, 2019
The position statement released by Disabled Peoples’ Organisations (DPO) demands a comprehensive national policy on sexuality and the NDIS, saying “governments have an obligation to ensure people with disability can
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Young people with disabilities are trapped in nursing homes

Bronwyn Morkham
SMH
Sunday 8th September, 2019
It is hard to live your life surrounded by death. That is the confronting challenge facing around 6,000 young people with disabilities who are in Australian nursing homes. One young
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