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6 ways responses to Covid-19 have been ableist, and why it matters

Andrew Pulrang
Forbes
Monday 31st January, 2022
If we don’t recognize and deliberately steer away from ableism in responding to Covid-19, the pandemic will never really end for people with disabilities. Instead of being a two or
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Supports in the time of COVID

Sara Gingold
DSC
Wednesday 19th January, 2022
The continuation of supports remains one of the biggest challenges for the disability sector. Many providers are increasingly worried about how they are going to continue delivering essential services with
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Experts call for a change of course on COVID, with urgent recommendations for care of people with disabilities

Melissa Sweet
Crokey
Monday 10th January, 2022
On 30 December, a senior psychiatrist tweeted out her frustration at mismanagement of the COVID pandemic in Australia using the “#LetItRip” hashtag. “Australia is a failing nation state with no
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People with disabilities are being left to sleep in their wheelchairs because support workers don’t have access to PPE and RATs

John Buckley
Business Insider
Friday 14th January, 2022
Under these current policy settings, experts say, Australians with disabilities are being left to fend for themselves, as workers with little to no workplace protection fall out of the workforce
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Covid-related staff shortages in Australian disability sector leave some without vital services

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Wednesday 12th January, 2022
Large swathes of the disability service sector have been forced into Covid isolation, leaving some clients without access to vital services, while a major provider has only been able to
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People with disability ‘at risk’ due to acute staff shortages across Australia

Akash Arora
SBS News
Monday 10th January, 2022
Staff shortages in the disability sector in Australia have gone from bad to worse due to a dearth of rapid antigen test kits and long queues at COVID-19 PCR testing
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People with disability ‘completely overlooked’ as Omicron surges

Eden Gillespie
SBS News
Tuesday 21st December, 2021
But Ms Gibbs feels those with disability have been forgotten by state and federal governments as Australia reopens. “I can take all the personal responsibility in the world but if
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Reasonable and Necessary Special series: Living with COVID

George Taleporos
Summer Foundation
Tuesday 7th December, 2021
Reasonable and Necessary is usually a podcast series about making Sense of the NDIS , where each podcast episode aims to simplify the NDIS for participants, their families and anyone
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Building back better: How disability inclusion is essential to recover and reset post pandemic

Jane Edge
PBA
Monday 6th December, 2021
There has been a catastrophic failure globally to preserve the lives, health and rights of people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This has dramatically deepened pre-existing inequalities for people
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The vulnerable disabled who need advocates

Dennis Sharples
The Age
Wednesday 1st December, 2021
Is the government so out of touch with the disability community that it did not realise there were barriers to vaccination, including anxiety and difficult behaviours that would require assistance?
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Australians living with disabilities find joy, independence and connection despite the pandemic

Kylie Bartholomew and Gavin Salmon
ABC
Monday 29th November, 2021
The pandemic has brought with it different challenges for everyone. But for some Australians with a disability, it's been a chance to find joy, independence and new passions.
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Immoral and inexcusable’: how Australians in disability homes fell from the front of the vaccine queue

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Monday 4th October, 2021

“We started to get calls saying, ‘When are these guys showing up’?” says Moody, who was until June the chief executive of a peak body for national disability insurance scheme…

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