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Richard Willingham
ABC News
Thursday 9th May, 2019

Children with high-needs disabilities are living in child protection because their parents can no longer look longer after them, with advocates blaming a lack of support from the National Disability…

SBS News
Friday 12th April, 2019
Advocacy groups representing migrants and refugees in Australia have sent a letter to Immigration Minister David Coleman questioning the legitimacy of the decision to refuse a Bhutanese family permanent residency
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
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
Carmen Arroyo and Emily Thampoe
Inter Press Service
Monday 13th August, 2018
“Children with disabilities are among the most marginalised groups in society. If society continues to see the disability before it sees the child, the risk of exclusion and discrimination remains,”
Harriet Tatham
ABC News
Tuesday 17th July, 2018

When Nicole Lee’s husband was removed from her home after she disclosed a decade of abuse to hospital staff following a suicide attempt, it took her eight weeks to get…

Stephanie Ferrier
ABC Online
Monday 30th April, 2018
While the victims were most often women, the report found nearly one in three of the victims were children — and one in four of them had sustained a brain
Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 27th September, 2017
A leading disability expert has warned that the safety concerns of young people with disability will limit the potential for the National Disability Insurance Scheme to nurture strong support relationships
 Miki Perkins
The Age
Monday 21st August, 2017
Robin and Bernard Shanahan are exhausted. They've been lobbying on behalf of their two children with disabilities for decades. Now in their seventies, they'd like to enjoy a well-earned retirement.
 Henrietta Cook
The Age
Thursday 17th August, 2017

Julianne Bugeja recently filmed her daily encounter with a locked gate at University Park Primary, which prevents access to her daughter living with spinal muscular atrophy. This means that Alyssa, who…

Fran Kelly
ABC RN Breakfast
Wednesday 5th April, 2017

Department stores are increasingly using young models from diverse cultural backgrounds and children with disabilities in catalogues and advertising campaigns. That shift isn’t by accident.

Rebecca Kelly
SBS
Monday 24th October, 2016

A 43-year-old autistic wife and mother to two beautiful autistic children wants Australians to steer away from stereotypes about what it means to live with autism in the wake of…