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Funding To Stop Violence Against Women With Disabilities

Mirage News
Tuesday 10th May, 2022

Workers in the family violence prevention and disability sectors will be better equipped with the skills to prevent violence against women with disabilities thanks to a funding boost to Women…

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National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality

Office for Women
Friday 3rd March, 2023
Wednesday 19th April, 2023
The Government is developing the National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality. Gender equality impacts everyone. Over the years, Australia has made great progress towards gender equality. However, there is also
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Women supporting women is the changemaker in the fight for equality for disabled women and girls.

Emma Clark
Disability Support Guide
Friday 10th March, 2023
Elly Desmarchelier, a speaker, writer and disability advocate spoke candidly about her experience as a woman with a disability, and called on all in the room to be agents of
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New Harassment Service for DDLS

DDLS
Wednesday 2nd March, 2022

Sexual harassment/discrimination for women in the workplace Are you a woman who has been subjected to sexual harassment or discrimination in the workplace? Do you have a disability – or…

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Pandemic Research project

People With Disability Australia
Friday 10th February, 2023

The Pandemic Research Project looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mental health and wellbeing of women with disability. Women have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic…

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And You Think You’re the Expert

WWILD Sexual Violence Prevention Association Inc.
Tuesday 16th August, 2022
This podcast series discusses intellectual disability, accessibility and violence and was created in collaboration with women with intellectual disability. Experts are interviewed about how they work with women with intellectual
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Women with disabilities ‘underestimated’ as battle for equality in science careers heats up

Eleanor Beidatsch
ABC News
Sunday 24th July, 2022
In 2022, people with disabilities made up just 6.3 per cent of university enrolments in Australia, and only 1.2 per cent had a profound disability. Of those, only a handful
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Women with disability grapple ‘administrative burden’ of the NDIS

Australian Unions
Friday 22nd July, 2022
Paperwork and bureaucracy should never stand in the way of people with disability accessing essential support. But cutting through this red tape is not only a structural barrier, but also
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NDIS Fact Sheet for women and girls with disability!

Women with Disability Australia
Friday 10th June, 2022
This fact sheet was developed to support women, girls, feminine identifying and non-binary people with disability understand, apply for and navigate the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The fact sheet
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Targeted approach needed to end ‘alarmingly high’ rates of violence against women with disability

Maggie Coggan
PBA
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
“As well as experiencing violence from family and our partners in our private home, we’re in disability group homes or in mental health inpatient wards. We’ve got disability support workers
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Women with disabilities twice as likely to experience physical and sexual violence

Jessie Tu
Women's Agenda
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
“Violence against women and girls with disabilities is not perpetrated by a ‘few bad apples,’ it looks like street harassment, controlling behaviours by paid and unpaid carers, doctors and policy-makers
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Changing the landscape: A national resource to prevent violence against women and girls with disabilities

Our Watch and Women with Disabilities Victoria
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
This resource names ableism and gender inequality as the two consistent, intersecting drivers of violence against women and girls with disabilities. It sets out the actions that must be taken
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