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Something Stronger – Truth-telling on hurt and loss, strength and healing, from First Nations people with disability’

Dr Scott Avery
Thursday 22nd October, 2020
This report was commissioned by the Disability Royal Commission and looks at how First Nations people with disability speak about their experience of violence and abuse. It finds that First Nations
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Disability Royal Commission Interim report

Disability Royal Commission
Friday 30th October, 2020
The report sets out what the Royal Commission has done in its first 15 months, the cut-off point being 31 July 2020.  The report says people with disability experience attitudinal,
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Interim report details widespread abuse against people with disability in Australia

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Monday 2nd November, 2020
The disability royal commission’s interim report was handed down on Friday, detailing how people with disability were experiencing violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation across all aspects of their lives. The 561-page
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Your Story, Disability Legal Support

DARU
Friday 16th October, 2020
Your Story Disability Legal Support is a free national service funded to give information and legal advice to people about safely sharing their story with the Royal Commission into Violence,
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Advocates say royal commission must #MakeItSafeToSpeak

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Monday 12th October, 2020
Disability advocates fear the most severe cases of systemic abuse will not be exposed during the royal commission unless greater privacy protections are given to people making submissions.   
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Public hearing 3 report – The experience of living in a group home for people with disability

Disability Royal Commission
Wednesday 30th September, 2020
The Royal Commission held a public hearing in Melbourne from Monday 2 December to Friday 6 December 2019. It inquired into homes and living for people with disability in Victoria and particularly the experiences
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People with disability denied care choices

Ethan James
Canberra Times
Wednesday 30th September, 2020
Far too many people with a disability are denied choices about their accommodation, often leading to neglect and abuse, a royal commission says. It said a shift from large housing complexes
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Overmedication of intellectually disabled people costing lives, inquiry told

Australian Associated Press
Tuesday 22nd September, 2020
“We believe that if Oliver had not have had the labels of autism and intellectual disability attached to him, he would absolutely have not have been prescribed psychotropic medications,” McGowan
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Overview of responses to the first Education and learning Issues paper

Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 8th September, 2020

Responses to the issues paper about education and learning for people with disability have been received from individuals including people with disability, family members of people with disability, advocates, organisations…

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For people with disability, the pandemic has brought hardship and neglect, Commission hears

Nicole MacKeeAugust
Croakey
Tuesday 25th August, 2020
Despite the refrain throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that ‘we are all in this together’, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability last week revealed
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Public hearing 5: Experiences of people with disability during the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic

Disability Royal Commission
Friday 28th August, 2020
Noting the Royal Commission's Statement of Concern released on 26 March 2020 about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disability, and Issues Paper on Emergency Planning, the
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Coronavirus exposes Indigenous disability gaps, royal commission hears

SBS News
Thursday 20th August, 2020
Damian Griffis, chief executive of the First Peoples Disability Network, said the virus has exacerbated existing inequalities in Australia. He said the group has received phone calls from across the country
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