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Rachael Brown
ABC Radio PM
Thursday 5th December, 2013

MARK COLVIN: The Victorian Government is denying that there’s a problem putting juvenile offenders in care homes with vulnerable wards of the state. A former Department of Human Services whistleblower…

Rachel Browne
The Age
Wednesday 6th November, 2013

Parents of children with profound disabilities are being compelled to do a ”DOCS dump” due to a lack of support, a new report says. The report by Anglicare Sydney recommends…

George Cochrane
The Age
Sunday 27th October, 2013

My spouse and I are both 52 years old. He earns about $53,000 net a year, I earn about $40,000 net. We have a mortgage of $152,000 on a house…

Victoria Ward
The Telegraph, UK
Friday 16th August, 2013

A man with significant learning difficulties has been ordered to undergo a vasectomy to prevent him from having further children in a landmark legal ruling by the High Court. Mrs…

Colleen Pearce
The Age
Saturday 15th December, 2012

The recent removal of a child from a young mother with a disability, reported in (the) Saturday Age, is heart-wrenching and disturbing and leaves me and those involved in the…

Victorian Equal Opportunities and Human Rights Commission
Tuesday 1st May, 2012

This report  shines a light on what has been a hidden problem in our disability system for many years. It results from the Commission’s research looking at the nature, extent…

Rachel Wells
The Age
Monday 21st May, 2012

Last June Lyn Bicknell went to her local police station and told officers that if they did not help her she would kill her intellectually disabled son. As desperate as…