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United Nations
Guidance Note
While the COVID-19 pandemic threatens all members of society, persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted due to attitudinal, environmental and institutional barriers that are reproduced in the COVID-19 response. This
Nancy Doyle
Forbs
Wednesday 29th April, 2020
This led me to thinking about how the current environment is leading to disability accommodations becoming widely available, not because of some ethical awakening or increased empathy but because now
Eliza Hull
ABC RN Life Matters
Monday 22nd October, 2018
We’ve Got This: Parenting with a Disability is a new ABC radio series produced by Eliza Hull. Eliza has a neurological condition 'Charcot Marie Tooth', and she’s the ABC’s 2018
Jane Norman & Eliza Borrello
ABC News
Thursday 22nd June, 2017

Disability advocates and politicians have slammed One Nation senator Pauline Hanson’s call for children with autism and disabilities to be removed from mainstream classrooms, saying the “hurtful” idea would amount…

 Janet Lord
Human Rights Now
Saturday 3rd December, 2016
New thinking on disability requires a major shift in approach; persons with disabilities are not problems to be fixed or empty vessels waiting for their fill of charity. The social
Tricia Malowney
ProBono Australia
Tuesday 11th October, 2016

I think it is time for a Senator Malowney…if the senate nomination to replace Stephen Conroy following his recent resignation needs to be filled by a woman, why not a…

Peter Gibilisco
Probono News
Thursday 25th August, 2016

Meritocracy is a belief that seems to me to still be alive and well in the senior management of disability support. It also seems to drive many aspects of public…

Paul Henman and Michele Foster
Australian Journal of Social Issues Volume 50 Issue 3
Wednesday 4th November, 2015

In many developed countries, the provision of disability services has undergone significant transformations, from institutional to community based care, and from organisational to personalised funding. Yet delivering disability support remains…

DARU
Wednesday 12th February, 2014
This forum was jointly convened by Victorian council of Social service (VCOSS) and Disability Advocacy Victoria (DAV) and was held at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre on 12 February 2014.
Sarina Kilham, Research Fellow, Centre for Disability Research and Policy at University of Sydney
SBS News
Wednesday 22nd January, 2014
As Australian authorities urge the general community to prepare and plan for bushfires, the early warning systems and public awareness campaigns are often failing to consider the needs of persons
Thai Nguyen
Blind Citizens Australia )BCA)
Friday 22nd November, 2013

A vision impaired member contacted the Blind Citizens Australia (BCA) office for support in a case against his local post office. During a visit to the post office to have

Frank Hall-Bentick, Patricia Cornelius
The Age
Friday 8th November, 2013

In 1981, Lesley Hall and some mates stormed the Miss Australia Quest. They actually strategically bought tickets, but to imagine them storming through the doors of the St Kilda Town…