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Bangladeshi refugee describes ‘humiliating’ treatment because of disability while detained on Nauru

SBS News
Thursday 27th October, 2022
A disabled Bangladeshi refugee has told the Disability Royal Commission he often went hungry during his detention on Nauru because he was unable to stand in the food line for
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Connecting the dots: Understanding the DFV experiences of children and young people with disability within and across sectors

Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety
Wednesday 28th September, 2022
This report highlights implications for improving policy and practice across intersecting disability, child and violence domains. It begins to address one of the evidence gaps identified in the 2020 interim
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Disability doubles risk of becoming victim of violence, NSW study finds

Jenny Noyes
SMH
Monday 19th September, 2022
The report confirmed that understanding: compared with the total population of NSW, people with disability were more than twice as likely to be victims of reported violence and domestic violence
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Line of sight: Refocussing Victoria’s adult safeguarding laws and practices

Victoria Office of the Public Advocate
Friday 19th August, 2022

This report draws on de-identified stories that starkly illustrate the impact of the system failures on adults who are at-risk. It identifies gaps and failures in the current framework and…

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And You Think You’re the Expert

WWILD Sexual Violence Prevention Association Inc.
Tuesday 16th August, 2022
This podcast series discusses intellectual disability, accessibility and violence and was created in collaboration with women with intellectual disability. Experts are interviewed about how they work with women with intellectual
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nah Diviney reveals being trolled after calling out Beyoncé for ableist slur as Q+A asks for greater disability representation

Paul Johnson
ABC News
Thursday 4th August, 2022
Writer and disability advocate Hannah Diviney has turned a discussion about Beyoncé using an ableist lyric on her album Renaissance into a call for those with lived disability experience to
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‘I have to plan for if I am stranded, if I am dropped, if my chair is damaged’: the perils of travelling while disabled

Lucy Webster
Guardian UK
Tuesday 2nd August, 2022
“I travel a lot, but never without fear,” she says. “It sounds awful, but I just expect the worst, then I plan what I’ll do if the worst happens –
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Young men abused by disability worker

7 News
Tuesday 17th May, 2022
The family of a young disabled man abused by a carer has never received an apology or compensation from the service provider, a royal commission has been told.
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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
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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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