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Keira Proust and Simon Lauder
ABC South East
Wednesday 17th February, 2021
When 26-year-old Nathan Johnston tried to connect with people during the peak of last year's COVID-19 lockdown, he realised how challenging it could be for people living with a disability
Nick McAllister
ABC News
Monday 22nd February, 2021
Model and activist Angel Dixon says there are two invisible barriers that prevent her and other disabled people from entering a clothing store — and they're both essential to the
ArtsHubbub Podcast
Arts Hub
Monday 22nd February, 2021
In this episode, we speak with Carly Findlay about ableism, the media and the new book Growing Up Disabled in Australia.
Jamila Rizvi
SMH
Sunday 10th January, 2021
Following community outrage at the decision to portray disability in this way, the studio has offered the standard empty "sorry to those who were offended". But the damage is done.
Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 9th December, 2020
Advocacy groups say the commission must recognise that segregation of people with disability is discrimination and a breach of human rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
Edel Harris
Radi Times
Friday 27th November, 2020
The new series of The Crown is extraordinary in two ways. Not only does the storyline include Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, the Queen’s cousins who both had a learning disability,
Background Briefing
ABC RN
Sunday 18th October, 2020
0457965505 Kimberly's sunny, athletic and inquisitive about everything. But for years she harboured terrible secrets about what happened to her. Janine Fitzpatrick investigates why her school failed to heed credible
DARU
Wednesday 29th July, 2020
This was the second session of the Advocacy Sector Conversations forum held on Zoom webinar for the first time, on 29 July 2020 (due to COVID-19 event restrictions not allowing
Ainslie Drewitt Smit
ABC Illawarra
Saturday 5th September, 2020
When Bodhi Dreyfus-Ballesi, 25, is happy, he will jump, clap and slap the top of his head. Now for the first time, his non-verbal expressions will be used as vital
Forward Blog
Community Business Bureau
Thursday 3rd September, 2020
The NDIS funding model provides a one size fits all approach, making it difficult for good quality group supports to survive and thrive, and for new ones to evolve. In
Simon Smale
ABC News
Sunday 23rd August, 2020
Annabelle Lindsay is one of two Australian Gliders who recently had their hopes of competing dashed by a change in the classification rules for wheelchair athletes set to compete at
One Plus One
ABC
Thursday 23rd July, 2020
"I got bullied because of my disability, I used to get called a cripple or a spastic everywhere I went. That stuff made it really hard for me — and