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Sixty people are on an “exclusion register” and banned from working with people in disability services in Victoria, a parliamentary inquiry into abuse in disability services has heard.
Victoria should take this opportunity to show national leadership by fixing the crisis in disability abuse and establish the best model of oversight and advocacy for the NDIS to follow….
Timothy Hampson, 52, pleaded guilty to four charges, including sexual penetration of a person with a cognitive impairment, and indecent assault.
The proposed legislation is one of 16 recommendations made in a draft report by People with disabilities WA and Developmental Disability WA, based on research following a Senate inquiry into…
Victorians with a disability are not reporting abuse because they fear they will not be believed, no action will be taken, or they will be punished, a damning Ombudsman investigation…
Victoria’s disability services commissioner has defended his decision not to conduct any investigations in the past four years, despite receiving “lots of complaints” about the state’s biggest disability services provider,…
Ms Juniper is planning a trip to Sydney but is struggling to find an airline that will let her take her dogs with her on the plane, and cases like…
Australians with intellectual disabilities will be paid half the wages owed for past work, if they agree not to sue the federal government.
A holographic exhibition that has been shown at human rights conventions in Geneva and New York is shedding light on the challenges faced by disabled Indigenous Australians.
Opportunities for people with disabilities under the NDIS are in danger of being wasted unless building standards are improved to provide better access to public transport and office blocks.
In 2014, a disabled woman named Stella Young took the stage at TEDx in Sydney and introduced the audience to the concept of inspiration porn. She explained that disabled people…
Prominent figures from the disability sector have responded angrily to a campaign launched by the ideas festival TEDxSydney, which is being promoted using the name of renowned disability activist and…
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