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Group Self Advocacy Partnership Project: Report & model

Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Friday 15th February, 2019
‘Many people with cognitive disability and complex communication support needs are discriminated against, and are yet to be fully included in Australian society. Because of this self advocacy groups continue
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Barriers and exclusions: The support needs of newly arrived refugees with a disability

Refugee Council of Australia
Tuesday 19th February, 2019

For a multitude of reasons, people from refugee backgrounds are more likely to have a disability than other populations. Up until 2012, people with disabilities or with serious health concerns…

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Culture is Inclusion: A narrative of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability.

Scot Avery
Thursday 14th February, 2019
Written from the personal accounts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability, researcher Scott Avery has complied a narrative that transports the reader to another world, hidden to
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Report on Government Services 2019

Productivity Commission
Friday 1st February, 2019
This is a recurring report. Part F, chapter 15 includes Services for People with Disability. This chapter reports on the Australian, State and Territory governments’ assistance provided to people with
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Making information accessible – for everyone

Dr Yvette Maker and Professor Jeannie Marie Paterson
The University of Melbourne
Wednesday 19th December, 2018
Essential but often complex services like banks, utilities and phones need to be accessible for all, including those with cognitive disabilities.
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Disability, thoughts of suicide and Australian men

Associate Professor Allison Milner, Anne-Marie Bollier, Professor Eric Emerson and Professor Anne Kavanagh
The University of Melbourne
Wednesday 19th December, 2018
It’s a difficult subject, but men in Australia are much more at risk of having suicidal thoughts than women; now, new research looks at what this means for Australian men
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VicHealth Indicators Survey Supplementary report: Disability

Vic Health
Monday 3rd December, 2018
The survey collected information on a range of factors known to influence individual and community wellbeing including safety, mental wellbeing, physical activity, healthy eating and alcohol consumption. The results show
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Poor disability support practices highlighted

DSC (Disability Services Commissioner)
Thursday 20th December, 2018
The DSC (Disability Services Commissioner) 2018 annual report and review of disability service provision to people who have died 2017–18 was tabled in Victorian Parliament on the 19/12/2018.
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Contextual issues in the implementation of mental health legislation

RuthVine, FionaJudd
Science Direct
Sunday 11th November, 2018

An new article in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry explores how changes to Victorian legislation improving human rights have been limited by under-investment and policy failures across the

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Building Employer Demand

Kantar Public
Department of Social Services (DSS)
Monday 1st October, 2018
In order to determine barriers different employers and businesses in Australia face to employing people with disability, The Department of Social Services (DSS) commissioned Kantar Public to undertake a program
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Market Stewardship Actions for the NDIS: New Report

Gemma Carey, Eleanor Malbon, Axelle Marjolin, Daniel Reeders
Centre for Social Impact
Monday 1st October, 2018
In this report the CSI draw together the international literature on effective quasi-market interventions for managing market failures and gaps.
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Hand In Hand Parent Meeting Report

Parenting Research Centre
Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Wednesday 19th September, 2018
Positive Powerful Parents is a self advocacy group for parents with intellectual disability. Last month they hosted a parent meeting. 17 parents with intellectual disability from all over Victoria were
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