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Communicating for change

Maggie Coggan
Pro Bono News
Monday 14th December, 2020
As a proud person with a disability, El Gibbs has spent her career communicating and amplifying the voices of the disability community during times of crisis and triumph. She’s this
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Disability groups fight to end segregation of people with disability in Australia

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 9th December, 2020
Advocacy groups say the commission must recognise that segregation of people with disability is discrimination and a breach of human rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
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Learn about disability advocacy

DARU
Thursday 3rd December, 2020

DARU courses are designed primarily for advocates working within funded disability advocacy organisations to supports skill development for providing human rights based advocacy practice. However everyone is welcome to give…

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Food a human-rights issue for people with disability

Mirage News
Thursday 12th November, 2020
Supporting the rights and needs of people with disability for equal access to safe, nutritious and enjoyable food is the call behind Dietitians Australia’s latest submission to the Disability Royal
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Disability Royal Commission Interim report

Disability Royal Commission
Friday 30th October, 2020
The report sets out what the Royal Commission has done in its first 15 months, the cut-off point being 31 July 2020. The report says people with disability experience attitudinal,
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Overmedication of intellectually disabled people costing lives, inquiry told

Australian Associated Press
Tuesday 22nd September, 2020
“We believe that if Oliver had not have had the labels of autism and intellectual disability attached to him, he would absolutely have not have been prescribed psychotropic medications,” McGowan
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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Shining a light on Social Transformation

Rosemary Kayess and Therese Sands
University of NSW Social Policy Research Centre
Friday 18th September, 2020
This report was commissioned by the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. It investigates the early rights movement of people with disability, which “exposed
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‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: 16 Moments in the Fight for Disability Rights

Julia Carme
New York times
Wednesday 22nd July, 2020
The disability civil rights movement has many distinct narratives, but the prevailing themes are of community, justice and equity. As with every other civil rights movement, the fight for disability
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Ep06: Human rights and disability

Get Real Podcast
ERMHA365
Wednesday 3rd June, 2020
Hear Leah van Poppel, alongside ermha365’s Social Policy and Advocacy Advisory Isabel Calvert, discuss the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and how it impacts on
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Why it is “reasonable and necessary” for the NDIS to support people’s sex lives

Helen Dickinson & Catherine Smith
The Conversation
Thursday 21st May, 2020
One major theme of COVID-19 media reporting has been stories of individuals craving physical contact and struggling with loneliness. But for some people with disability, this isn’t just the byproduct
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Ann Marie Smith death prompts demand for answers from federal and state authorities

Camron Slessor
ABC Radio Adelaide
Tuesday 19th May, 2020
The Federal Government says it "wants answers" on the death of disability care recipient Ann Marie Smith in what police described as "degrading circumstances", as pressure mounts on federal and
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The tragic death of Ann-Marie Smith has shocked us all

Ben Gauntlett, Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Commissioner
Linked-in
The essence of human rights is the right of everyone to live a dignified life. A life with shelter, food, access to health care, safety, inclusion in the community and
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