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Chris Boyle and Jo Anderson
The Conversation
Tuesday 19th August, 2014

Inclusive education, where students with disabilities are educated within mainstream classrooms rather than special schools or classes, is widely recognised as being the best way to ensure everyone gets a…

Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
Thursday 1st January, 1970

Access to education is a critical factor in eliminating disadvantage and protecting vulnerable children, and is essential to lifelong economic and social wellbeing. For these reasons, the Commission undertook research…

Stephanie Gotlib
New Matilda
Thursday 6th June, 2013

The PM has delivered on Gonski’s recommendations for a funding boost to students with disabilities. Money is necessary, but will only go so far – attitudes must change too, writes…

Danielle Kutchel
The Age

Autistic children face a struggle, part of which is the need for funding to help them achieve successful schooling. He sits at the back of the class, obsessed with a…

Reported by Sally Sara
ABC Radio AM
Wednesday 24th April, 2013

Disability rights activists say some people with intellectual disabilities are being short-changed when it comes to superannuation. The Federal Government is being urged to change super laws so that low-earning…

Richard Teese
The Age
Monday 15th April, 2013

Non-government schools will emerge as the big winners from the Council of Australian Governments meeting on national funding reform, to be held in Canberra on April 19. Which is ironic,…

Daniel Hurst and Henrietta Cook
The Age
Saturday 2nd March, 2013

A voucher system making funding for disabled students portable between schools would not guarantee a quality education, advocates warn. The Victorian government has proposed a voucher system for disadvantaged students,…

Life Matters presented by Natasha Mitchell
ABC Radio National
Tuesday 16th October, 2012

If you have an obvious disability, you’ve probably got used to people’s awkwardness, as they struggle with what to say, how to act, where to look. Often pre-conceived ideas or…

Jewel Topsfield
The Age
Monday 24th September, 2012

As the mother of three children on the autism spectrum, Kerrie Curtis is a veteran of battles with the Victorian education system. Her latest fight is to get special VCE…

Ilektra Spandagou
Australian Review of Public Affairs
Tuesday 29th May, 2012

Down syndrome was first described by John Langdon Down 150 years ago. A child either has or has not Down syndrome and a diagnosis is definite soon after birth, but…

Denise Ryan
The Age
Monday 23rd April, 2012

When, at 23, Joanne Webber was told she had a rare eye condition, she received lots of support. She was diagnosed for free at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear…

Jewel Topsfield
The Age
Monday 12th March, 2012

Victorian Education Minister Martin Dixon says a plan for a prep-to-year-12 school for students with autism in Melbourne’s western suburbs is ”non-negotiable”, with work on the new school to begin…