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The devaluation of Disabled lives

Georgia Cranko
The Saturday Paper
Saturday 2nd April, 2022

Ann Marie Smith died in abject circumstances, at the hands of her carer in the middle-class Adelaide suburb of Kingston Park. Her killing raises questions about the way our society…

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Woman living with cerebral palsy tells disability royal commission she was ‘raped and assaulted’ by carer

Elizabeth Wright and Celina Edmonds
ABC News
Monday 28th March, 2022
The woman, known as Chloe, gave evidence to the disability royal commission that she was repeatedly raped by the man, and later fell pregnant.  She told the DRC she "nearly died" and lost
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Targeted approach needed to end ‘alarmingly high’ rates of violence against women with disability

Maggie Coggan
PBA
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
“As well as experiencing violence from family and our partners in our private home, we’re in disability group homes or in mental health inpatient wards. We’ve got disability support workers
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Women with disabilities twice as likely to experience physical and sexual violence

Jessie Tu
Women's Agenda
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
“Violence against women and girls with disabilities is not perpetrated by a ‘few bad apples,’ it looks like street harassment, controlling behaviours by paid and unpaid carers, doctors and policy-makers
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Changing the landscape: A national resource to prevent violence against women and girls with disabilities

Our Watch and Women with Disabilities Victoria
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
This resource names ableism and gender inequality as the two consistent, intersecting drivers of violence against women and girls with disabilities. It sets out the actions that must be taken
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Women with disability twice as likely to suffer violence and abuse

Patricia Karvelas
RN Breakfast
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
A new groundbreaking report has revealed alarmingly high rates of violence experienced by women and girls with disabilities, with 65 per cent having experienced violence.  Our Watch and Women with
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State seizes control of supported care homes over abuse, ‘uninhabitable conditions’

Jewel Topsfield
Brisbane Times
Thursday 13th January, 2022
The Victorian government has seized control of two supported care homes in Melbourne’s outer north-west after an investigation revealed coercion and abuse of residents, uninhabitable living conditions, forgery of signatures
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NDIS provider apologises to group home residents after allegations of violence and neglect

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Wednesday 15th December, 2021
One of Australia’s largest national disability insurance scheme providers has apologised to the residents of two troubled group homes after allegations of violence, abuse and neglect were aired at an
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Disability royal commission: woman with disability sexually assaulted in park after men banned from visiting her accommodation

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Tuesday 7th December, 2021
A woman with cerebral palsy was sexually assaulted in a public park after her disability accommodation provider refused to let her meet her date in her own home, the disability
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What’s going on with restrictive practices?

Therese Morgante
DSC
Monday 15th November, 2021
Of the 1,044,851 reportable incidents lodged by NDIS providers in 2020–2021, a whopping 98.7%, (or 1,032,064) concerned the use of URPs. (Unauthorised Restrictive Practice) That is a staggeringly high number
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Elder abuse and the NDIS webinar

Peninsula Health, Monash Health and La Trobe Community Health
Tuesday 28th September, 2021

This session was part of the Lunchtime Learnings webinar series, supporting service providers about how to support, and respond better to  older people experiencing elder abuse.  The sessions aim to…

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Advocates say justice gap must be closed for people with disability

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Monday 18th October, 2021
There hasn’t been nearly enough work done to fix the criminal justice system for people with disability, according to an advocate who knows first-hand how traumatic prison can be for
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