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Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Monday 27th July, 2020
or Ronelle – who has two children with disability who attend mainstream schools in rural Victoria – the move to remote learning has highlighted the inequality in Australia’s school system.
Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 15th July, 2020
Disability advocates are concerned by the Victorian government’s plan to allow students with disability to return to school, with fears this will put vulnerable children in greater danger of contracting
Adam Carey
The Age
Saturday 20th June, 2020
Three special schools in Melbourne will be investigated over a series of allegations of “violence, abuse and serious neglect” of students with disabilities over the past 10 years. Victoria’s Department
Carolyn Webb
The Age
Wednesday 27th May, 2020
Mary Sayers, CYDA's chief executive, said that ‘‘all responses to a crisis such as COVID-19 must be designed to avoid creating further educational and social disconnection and inequality’’.
Nas Campanella
AM
Wednesday 6th May, 2020
Many children have been learning at home during the pandemic. But for parents with children living with a disability the transition has been tough. Some families say they're exhausting their
Norman Hermant, Nas Campanella and Lucy Kent
ABC Online
Wednesday 6th May, 2020
Homeschooling is difficult enough for most families, but parents of students with disabilities say they urgently need more support to help educate their kids. Fiona Sharkie, CEO of Victorian peak
Stephanie Gotlib
Probono Australia
Tuesday 3rd March, 2020
Nine-year-old Quaden Bayles gained global fame in a viral video after he was bullied at school for his dwarfism. Disability advocate Stephanie Gotlib writes it is the attitudes and actions
Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Monday 10th February, 2020
Endeavour Foundation CEO Andrew Donne said it was shocking that so many people were uncomfortable having their children share a class with a student with an intellectual disability.
Scott Alterator
The Conversation
Tuesday 3rd December, 2019
Part of this spend must go towards improving school facilities, especially for students with a disability. In 2017, around 18.8% of school students in Australia were provided with adjustments at
Kate De Bruin
The Sector
Thursday 28th November, 2019
When Gibb was ready to start school, his mum, Caitlin, took him on a school tour. She had picked this school because of its “small village feel”, thinking they would
Nas Campanella and Norman Hermant
ABC News
Saturday 9th November, 2019
"When you say you're going to have a royal commission that's going to have disabled people at the heart of it and then you don't have a single disabled person
Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 6th November, 2019
Some students with disability have been denied bathroom breaks and forced to sit in their own urine, while others have been forcefully dragged by their teachers, the disability royal commission