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ABC News
Monday 27th February, 2023

Julie* has been with her partner Simon* for nearly four years. She loves that he is well-read and smart, and that they share an appreciation for art and science. She…

AMA
Friday 10th February, 2023

AMA analysis reveals that targeted programs that address hospital exit block could save an estimated $811.6 million to $2.17 billion a year.

Probono Australia
Wednesday 22nd February, 2023

As the disability sector grapples with workforce shortages, the Disability Royal Commission is examining what can be done to enhance the capacity of disability service providers to deliver safe and

ABC News
Wednesday 22nd February, 2023

Festival-goers want music festival organisers to improve accessibility at their events, following a series of blunders at this year’s Laneway Festival. Patrons have told Hack that security at the Sydney

Probono Australia
Friday 17th February, 2023

The federal government has announced the country’s first national practice guideline to support autistic children in their early years. The National Guideline for Supporting the Learning, Participation, and Wellbeing of…

Angel Dixon, Elizabeth Kendall and Kelsey Chapman
The Conversation
Sunday 26th February, 2023

The prevailing public perception is that everything people with disability do is a challenge. Sometimes, that is true. In those times, we may ask or say “yes” to a kind…

Sydney Morning Herald
Friday 17th February, 2023

Australia is lagging other countries when it comes to employing people with disability. A gulf exists between the employment rates of working-aged Australians with and without disability. The gap here

Architecture and Design
Friday 24th February, 2023

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was designed to be a market-based system that would shift power from government and providers to consumers. The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission’s Own

NDIS
Friday 24th February, 2023

Greenvale’s Tobias Ward-Boas said he couldn’t wipe the smile off his face when he received a call to say he’d landed a job with the Victorian Advocacy League for Individuals…

La Trobe University
Friday 17th February, 2023

A La Trobe University research team has been awarded an ARC Linkage Project to the value of $532,680 for a two-year project investigating the lived experience of people with a…

Laura Beavis
ABC
Saturday 18th February, 2023

A disability royal commissioner says he has been struck by the fact that “nobody seems to have been held accountable” at a disability service provider in the two years since…

Antonia O'Flaherty and Alana Kennedy-Tucker
ABC News
Friday 17th February, 2023

Brisbane resident Chris Noble agrees electric vehicles present many opportunities with inclusive designs and modifications but he’s frustrated at charging bays that lack accessibility.