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Advocacy groups lobby to halt imminent deportation of deaf Bhutanese teen

SBS News
Friday 12th April, 2019
Advocacy groups representing migrants and refugees in Australia have sent a letter to Immigration Minister David Coleman questioning the legitimacy of the decision to refuse a Bhutanese family permanent residency
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Staying Safe

VALID
Thursday 4th April, 2019
The ‘Staying Safe’ resource is a video series that inform the community about the need to respect people with disability and to prevent abuse and neglect. According to research the
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Barriers and exclusions: The support needs of newly arrived refugees with a disability

Refugee Council of Australia
Tuesday 19th February, 2019

For a multitude of reasons, people from refugee backgrounds are more likely to have a disability than other populations. Up until 2012, people with disabilities or with serious health concerns…

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Disability and dignity podcast

David Rutledge
ABC News
Sunday 27th January, 2019
Philosophers have been slow to address disability - which is odd, because disability raises a host of fascinating and challenging issues around justice, rights and fairness.
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Podcast: Dying for Change

Melbourne Disability Institute
Thursday 6th December, 2018
Improving the health and lives of Australians with intellectual disability was the topic for discussion at the Dying for Change public seminar and roundtable hosted by the Melbourne Disability Institute
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A song for sex rights

Myf Warhurst with Myf Warhurst
ABC Radio
Monday 3rd December, 2018
Everyone likes to have their voice heard, but not everyone is heard equally. Rainbow Rights is a self advocacy group for people with an intellectual disability and who happen to
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Poor disability support practices highlighted

DSC (Disability Services Commissioner)
Thursday 20th December, 2018
The DSC (Disability Services Commissioner) 2018 annual report and review of disability service provision to people who have died 2017–18 was tabled in Victorian Parliament on the 19/12/2018.
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Voice at the Table

Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Monday 1st October, 2018
The resources developed as part of this project provide practical consumer participation information, ideas and resources which can be used by service providers, governments and community organisations to ensure people
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Ouch: Disability Talk Podcast

BBC Radio
Thursday 1st March, 2018
Interviews and discussion with a personal and often humorous touch. With guest presenters plus Kate Monaghan and the Ouch blog team. Ouch is available exclusively online.
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‘I needed help, instead I was punished’: Abuse and Neglect of Prisoners with Disabilities in Australia

Kriti Sharma
Human Rights Watch
Tuesday 6th February, 2018
People with disabilities, particularly a cognitive or psychosocial disability, are overrepresented in the criminal justice system in Australia—comprising around 18 percent of the country’s population, but almost 50 percent of
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Factors associated with the use of mechanical restraint in disability services

Lynne S. Webber, Ben Richardson, Kathryn L. White, Padraig Fitzpatrick, Keith McVilly & Sheridan Forster
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, DOI: 10.3109/1366825
Wednesday 17th May, 2017
Mechanical restraint refers to the use of materials or devices to restrict the behaviours of a person with a disability, where the restraint is neither for therapeutic purposes or required
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How attitudes disable

Presented by Lynne Haultain
Up Close ep.399
Tuesday 1st August, 2017

Rethinking our assumptions about people with impairments is a critical step towards more inclusiveness Social epidemiologist Professor Eric Emerson argues that “disability” and “being disabled” really refer to the effects…

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