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DANA and AFDO call for continuity of funding in short Pre-Budget Submission

Disability advocacy Network Australia (DANA)
Friday 3rd February, 2023

DANA and AFDO collaborated on a brief Pre-Budget Submission calling for continuity of advocacy funding (including systemic advocacy and representation) as the Disability Royal Commission comes to an end. The…

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Independent disability advocacy: Submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability

DANA
Wednesday 21st December, 2022
The submission is informed by the collective knowledge and experience of independent disability advocacy member organisations. It explores the context, key barriers and challenges for the disability advocacy sector and
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Call for national guidelines to support birthing journey for women with disability

Eliza Hull
ABC
Thursday 24th November, 2022
With only a quarter of public maternity hospitals reporting adequate services for women with disabilities, Ms Benzie says the time is now to implement disability identification – which would lead
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The Advocacy Effect – 2022 AFDO Advocacy Conference

Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO)
Monday 17th October, 2022
Held in Melbourne on 17 October, the program set out to "unpack and examine the impact and effect that advocacy has in a variety of areas" from large-scale policy to
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Disability community demands inclusive plan for COVID future

Danielle Kutchel
PBA
Wednesday 13th July, 2022
“People have experienced a lot of fear, illness, isolation and neglect,” explained Dominic Golding, policy officer at National Ethnic Disability Alliance. “COVID has had a really big impact on where
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Building a stronger foundation: Submission to the National Disability Advocacy Framework 2022-2025

Radhika Rego
VCOSS
Monday 11th July, 2022
The National Disability Advocacy Framework is a shared commitment to disability advocacy between the Commonwealth, state and territory governments to ensure there is access to advocacy services for all people
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We Need the Leadership of Persons with Disabilities’, Secretary-General Tells States Parties to Convention, Calling for Inclusion on All Fronts

United Nations
Press release
Tuesday 14th June, 2022
This fifteenth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an important moment for stocktaking and reflection. With 185 ratifications
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5 Reasons Why Disability Activism Is Still Hard

Andrew Pulrang
Forbes
Wednesday 25th May, 2022
Disability activism can be exciting, empowering, and enormously fulfilling — especially for people with disabilities themselves. It can also be exhausting and frustrating. And to outside observers, newcomers, and longtime
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Hundreds answer call to defend NDIS

Danielle Kutchel
PBA
Wednesday 4th May, 2022
“It's been so difficult historically for people with disability and families to get heard and be treated like their concerns are worthy and important enough to consider”
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Push for special schools to be phased out under inclusive education plan

Nicole Precel
WAtoday
Monday 2nd May, 2022
Mary Sayers, chief executive of Children and Young People with Disability Australia, said the organisation was calling for federal funding for the plan to be created and rolled out over
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Australians across the country take action to defend the NDIS

Anna Christian
Disability Support Guide
Thursday 28th April, 2022
Ms Foreman has been involved with Every Australian Counts since the beginning and was one of the first people in Australia to receive an NDIS plan. She says one of
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Disability sector demands inclusive disaster preparedness

Jonathan Alley
PBA
Wednesday 6th April, 2022
A coalition of 40 disability rights and advocacy organisations has endorsed an open letter to politicians running in the 2022 election, that demands a new approach to ensuring better safety
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