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Kirsten Busby is walking a path that few have gone down before her. The soprano is blind, and is forging a career as an opera singer. But she hopes her…
The education minister, Jason Clare, has said the next national agreement on school reform will be tied to improved outcomes for students with disabilities, amid a split with the states…
Women with disabilities fear they’ll be left behind by new federal government plans to address violence against women, despite being particularly at risk.
This is not an easy fix, but our schools should be safe places where students grow and learn together.
Australian researchers hope a new AI-supported educational program will help reduce the use of restraints and seclusion on people with disability. The Promoting Positive Behaviour Support Practice program is designed…
Exclusive: New data shows children with disabilities at wealthy fee-paying schools are receiving up to six times the government support funding as those at public schools
Some days, Kristin Gillespie’s disability is so debilitating she can’t make a meal, leave the house or remember how to use her phone. On those days, life feels like “swimming laps…
Classrooms must be places of learning not conflict, where each child’s individual needs are understood and supported.
As Australian governments urgently build new homes to deal with the national housing shortage, there are concerns many of those new builds won’t meet the needs of our ageing population.
Almost a million Australian schoolchildren now have a disability – that’s one in four enrolments. Parents, teachers and advocates say education is at crisis point
Recent media coverage about the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) frames the choices of people with disability as threats to their safety or the safety of others. Such reports suggest…
The Department of Social Services (DSS) has distributed $14.9 million to help people with disabilities into work. The first round of the government’s structural adjustment fund for supported employment was…
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