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A manager at Victoria’s biggest disability services provider Yooralla has been jailed for four years after he was caught by a hidden camera preying on a vulnerable cognitively impaired woman…
Sixty people are on an “exclusion register” and banned from working with people in disability services in Victoria, a parliamentary inquiry into abuse in disability services has heard.
Victoria should take this opportunity to show national leadership by fixing the crisis in disability abuse and establish the best model of oversight and advocacy for the NDIS to follow….
The proposed legislation is one of 16 recommendations made in a draft report by People with disabilities WA and Developmental Disability WA, based on research following a Senate inquiry into…
Victorians with a disability are not reporting abuse because they fear they will not be believed, no action will be taken, or they will be punished, a damning Ombudsman investigation…
Victoria’s disability services commissioner has defended his decision not to conduct any investigations in the past four years, despite receiving “lots of complaints” about the state’s biggest disability services provider,…
In 2014, a disabled woman named Stella Young took the stage at TEDx in Sydney and introduced the audience to the concept of inspiration porn. She explained that disabled people…
There is much to be gained by drawing the curtains from public institutions, by exposing their failings and wrongdoing. That has never been more apparent than it is today. A…
A deaf woman excluded from serving on a jury because she required an Auslan interpreter is suing the Queensland Government for discrimination.
Campaign to change social attitudes towards people with disabilities was inspired by writer, comedian and advocate Stella Young, who died in December.
