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Avoiding ‘Othering’: How should disability policy be established with Indigenous people?

John Gilroy
Croak
Wednesday 2nd October, 2019
There has long been concern and evidence that the NDIS, which promised so much for people with disability, is not meeting the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Centrelink accused of ‘disability bullying’ after man with intellectual disability receives $15,000 robodebt

Paul Farrell
ABC 7.30
Tuesday 8th October, 2019
The mother of an intellectually disabled man who initially received a $15,000 "robodebt" has described the Department of Human Services' conduct in seeking to recover the debt as a form
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Sex work restrictions are punishing people with disabilities, advocates say

Casey Briggs
ABC Online
Thursday 26th September, 2019
A South Australian living with a disability says accessing the services of a sex worker is a lifeline to intimacy. It comes as a bill to decriminalise sex work is
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Parliament House security accused of ‘dehumanising’ search of disability advocate Christina Ryan

Rosie King
ABC Online
Tuesday 24th September, 2019
Ms Ryan uses a power wheelchair, made of metal and powered by truck batteries, so she always expects that getting through the security checkpoints at the front door will be
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As a disabled woman, my abortion wasn’t questioned—but my pregnancy was

Nicole Lee
Quartz
Wednesday 18th September, 2019
Women’s reproductive rights are a tough enough topic for any female-identifying person in the 21st century. For the disability community though, they raise a whole different set of issues.
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Concerns over disability support in Australia brought to the UN

RN Breakfast
Tuesday 10th September, 2019
An Australian delegation has travelled to Geneva to highlight concerns about the lack of support services for people with a disability in this country. The group will address a United
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Australian advocates travel to UN to highlight discrimination against migrants with disabilities

SBS
Thursday 12th September, 2019
A group of Australians with disabilities have travelled to Geneva to tell a UN committee about their experiences of discrimination and call on the government for more support for the
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‘A human need’: Disability groups say people on NDIS should have access to sex workers

Judith Ireland
SMH
Saturday 7th September, 2019

Four of Australia’s major disability groups argue the NDIS needs a “sexuality policy” to cover a broad range of needs such as adaptive sex toys, services from sex workers and…

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Advocacy groups call for NDIS to fund sexual supports

Judy Skatssoon
Australia Ageing Agenda
Thursday 5th September, 2019
The position statement released by Disabled Peoples’ Organisations (DPO) demands a comprehensive national policy on sexuality and the NDIS, saying “governments have an obligation to ensure people with disability can
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Joint Position Statement: A call for a rights-based framework for sexuality in NDIS

Mirage News
Wednesday 28th August, 2019
Historically people with disability have been subjected to societal beliefs that we are either asexual or hypersexual, while constantly being denied full autonomy over our own bodies.
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Jenny Macklin and the creation of the NDIS

Big Ideas
ABC Radio National
Thursday 15th August, 2019
Jenny Macklin held many social policy portfolios over her long political career. As Minister for Disability Reform in the Gillard government she ushered in the NDIS. Jenny talks about the
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Australia ‘failing’ those with disabilities, advocacy groups warn

Tom Stayner
SBS
Sunday 4th August, 2019
Women with Disabilities Australia executive director Carolyn Frohmader said Australia's most vulnerable continue to face unacceptable barriers. “There's widespread hardship, discrimination, violence and poverty, they face these every day,” she
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