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NDIA under pressure to end delays and get participants out of hospitals and aged care homes

Dan Jervis-Bardy
Canberra Times
Thursday 17th March, 2022
A coalition of housing, health and disability groups has launched a pre-election campaign calling on the National Disability Insurance Agency to dramatically speed up decisions about funding for supported accommodation.
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People with intellectual disability die 27 years earlier than other Australians. Can a new campaign remedy that?

Celina Edmonds
ABC News
Wednesday 2nd March, 2022
Linda Hughes never leaves her son alone in hospital, for fear he might die if he does not get the treatment he deserves. "I certainly know we've saved his life
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Experts call for a change of course on COVID, with urgent recommendations for care of people with disabilities

Melissa Sweet
Crokey
Monday 10th January, 2022
On 30 December, a senior psychiatrist tweeted out her frustration at mismanagement of the COVID pandemic in Australia using the “#LetItRip” hashtag. “Australia is a failing nation state with no
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Call for more people with disabilities on TV

David Knox
TV Tonight
Tuesday 23rd November, 2021
Television and advertising should lift the numbers of people with disabilities if Australia hopes to increase employment numbers, a Royal Commission has been told. 53.4% of people living with disabilities
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Agents of our own Destiny: Activism and the road to the Disability Royal Commission

Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 2nd November, 2021
This research report is about the disability rights movement and the history of disability activism and advocacy in Australia. It highlights how hard people with disability, advocates and activists have
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A fairer, equal and more inclusive Victoria

Charlotte Newbold
VCOSS
Tuesday 26th October, 2021
VCOSS welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission to the Review of the Disability Act 2006 (Vic). It is important that the new Act is robust and comprehensive in promoting
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NDIS Act amendments tabled

Sara Gingold
DSC
Thursday 4th November, 2021
The tabled version is a level up from the consultation drafts. While senators can still suggest changes and ultimately decide to accept or reject the bill, if the government gets
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Royal Commission explores Quality and Safeguards

Jessica Quilty
Disability Services Consulting (DSC)
Monday 11th October, 2021
Safeguards and quality services are key areas of inquiry for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation (Royal Commission). Whilst the full report is not due to be
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Climate protesters with disabilities get creative

Andrea Schöne
Deutsche Welle
Tuesday 7th September, 2021
People with disabilities can be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — so why shouldn't they be at the forefront of climate activism?
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Judith Heumann – disability warrior

Conversations
ABC Radio
Thursday 26th August, 2021
As a teenager, Judy went to summer camp and found a community of other disabled kids with high expectations like her. Together they became a generation of disability rights activists
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Disability advocates demand action amid slow vaccine rollout

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Tuesday 17th August, 2021
Frustrated disability groups say the Australian government has failed to protect the nation’s most clinically vulnerable people during the pandemic. Now, they have put forward an 11-point plan to urgently
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SBS asks: ‘What Does Australia Really Think About’ ….Disability? Old People? Obesity?

SBS
Wednesday 21st July, 2021
Saturday 30th October, 2021

In a ground-breaking new documentary series, SBS seeks to explore how stigma and prejudice impact the lives of millions of Australians, by getting to the heart of what people really…

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