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Like other disabled Australians, the #censusfail furore is making me grin. Over the past month, the nation has been immersed in the type of outrage only afforded to the privileged….
Minister for Social Services and Disability Services Christian Porter has announced a review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s IT system after claims the system has been a “debacle”.
This weekend’s Good Weekend featured the story “Parenting an intellectually disabled child: life forever on duty” about Alex Browne a 22-year-old man with an intellectual disability. It showed that not…
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is the biggest social reform in Australia this century. By 2022 it will help half a million people access comprehensive disability support at a…
A disability advocacy group believes the use of restraints against disabled people is still a “daily occurrence” as a former support worker in Canberra came forward to share her horror…
I support the right to assisted dying, but I also worry that people will look at me with my crooked and paralysed body and make that decision for me. The…
A callous killer who laughed after mugging and beating an intellectually disabled, homeless man to death in an unprovoked attack has been jailed for 20 years.
A formal complaint against the AFL will be lodged by representatives of the Deaf community to the Human Rights Commission today.
Disabled people deserve to know, from our school days, that we’re not just cases, diagnoses, or “not really disabled”; we’re part of a community with its own histories and triumphs….
GEELONG’S own Chris Van Ingen is set to star in the fourth and final episode of ABC’s hit new television series Barracuda. The television series, based on Christos Tsiolkas’s novel,…
A deaf man who has two degrees claims he is unable to get a job, despite ‘thousands’ of job applications. He also has a mild case of Autism Spectrum Disorder…
On the first of this month a quiet revolution took place as the National Disability Insurance Scheme began its nationwide roll-out. The moment is no less monumental for the lack…
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