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Monumental challenge to NDIS laws an Australian-first

Luke Grant
3AW
Saturday 23rd October, 2021
The Australian Human Rights Commission will decide on the validity of a law which discriminates against over 65s seeking support from the NDIS. The National Disability Insurance Scheme is not
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The missing link in disability organisations

Maggie Coggan
Pro Bono News
Thursday 28th October, 2021
“My disability is the reason that I’m not on a number of boards that I could have been on,” Innes told Pro Bono News. He said that while there had
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Peter is in a wheelchair after getting polio, but the NDIS says he’s too old for funding

Dana Daniel
SMH
Monday 25th October, 2021
The Australian Human Rights Commission has accepted a discrimination complaint against the National Disability Insurance Agency, challenging the age limit that restricts funding for service to those aged under 65.
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Disabled astronauts blaze new space trails

Rachel CrowellOctober
Scientific America
Wednesday 20th October, 2021
Mona Minkara is a bioengineer at Northeastern University, where she leads a laboratory focused on applying computational modeling to pulmonary research. She is also one of the only blind faculty
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The I Can’t Stand Podcast

Peta Hooke
Friday 1st October, 2021
Have you ever wondered what it is like to live with a disability? The I Can't Stand Podcast is for everyone who has a question or just wondered about disability.
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Disability Support Pension applicants are being forced into poverty, inquiry hears

Evan Young
SBS News
Monday 6th September, 2021
A Senate committee looking into the purpose, intent and adequacy of the DSP on Monday heard a range of longstanding concerns from people with disability and advocacy groups that the
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Climate protesters with disabilities get creative

Andrea Schöne
Deutsche Welle
Tuesday 7th September, 2021
People with disabilities can be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — so why shouldn't they be at the forefront of climate activism?
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This Is My Story: Lisa Sansbury

Grampians Disability Advocacy
Monday 6th September, 2021

Indigneous woman Lisa Sansbury tells her story of trauma and abuse after being removed from her family at a young age. She tells her story in a painting to be…

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Lisa Sansbury, mother of Adam Goodes, hopes to set an example with her story as a Stolen Generation survivor

Patrick Laverick
ABC Ballarat
Wednesday 25th August, 2021
Ballarat-based Grampians disAbility Advocacy (GdA) has launched a video to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to share stories with the Disability Royal Commission. This Is My Story gives voice
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Judith Heumann – disability warrior

Conversations
ABC Radio
Thursday 26th August, 2021
As a teenager, Judy went to summer camp and found a community of other disabled kids with high expectations like her. Together they became a generation of disability rights activists
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SBS asks: ‘What Does Australia Really Think About’ ….Disability? Old People? Obesity?

SBS
Wednesday 21st July, 2021
Saturday 30th October, 2021

In a ground-breaking new documentary series, SBS seeks to explore how stigma and prejudice impact the lives of millions of Australians, by getting to the heart of what people really…

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National Disability Insurance Scheme ‘too complex’ for people from diverse backgrounds, agencies warn

Sara Tomevska
ABC News
Monday 16th August, 2021
Mr Mung's NDIS plan has provided him with a mobility scooter and he accesses physiotherapy and swimming classes with the help of a Burmese-speaking support worker. But securing that help
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