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Caring for a person who has a decision-making disability can be both challenging and rewarding, however, you may be naturally concerned about what will happen, once you are no longer…
A callous killer who laughed after mugging and beating an intellectually disabled, homeless man to death in an unprovoked attack has been jailed for 20 years.
Children with disabilities could face new risks under the $22 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a national inquiry has been told. Gail Furness, SC, counsel assisting the royal commission…
The mother of an intellectually disabled girl tells an inquiry she is angry the people who abused her daughter were not adequately investigated. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to…
Family violence survivor Emma Gierschick has called for more help for women who have special needs children and are fleeing abusers.
This guide is designed to help understand the ‘hidden disability’, ABI, and the justice system. It describes ABI, then steps the reader through areas of the justice system such as…
A CORONER has recommended new safety measures after an intellectually disabled woman choked on her dinner at a Lilydale supported accommodation facility.
An interview with Nance Haxton exploring the issues around domestic violence victims with an intellectual disability.
People with cognitive and psychiatric impairments are over-represented in the prison system.People with cognitive and psychiatric impairments are at high risk of re-entering the justice system without receiving the crucial…
One of three deaf people accused of murdering a deaf man, who fell from an apartment balcony in Melbourne’s outer east, has been found unfit to stand trial due to…
Jane has an intellectual disability, and over her lifetime she’s suffered unrelenting sexual and physical abuse by six different male perpetrators. She is far from alone. On the contrary, 90…
Suspected child molesters have walked free because their disabled victims lack the capacity to be cross-examined in court, a senior police officer has told an inquiry.
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