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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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Royal commission told of ‘heartbreaking’ abuse faced by women with disability

Nas Campanella
ABC News
Thursday 14th October, 2021
Alarming statistics about the violence and abuse experienced by women and girls with disability have been laid bare for a Commonwealth inquiry, including increased reports of strangulation during the pandemic.
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This Is My Story: Lisa Sansbury

Grampians Disability Advocacy
Monday 6th September, 2021

Indigneous woman Lisa Sansbury tells her story of trauma and abuse after being removed from her family at a young age. She tells her story in a painting to be…

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Rapid Evidence Review: Violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability

Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 24th August, 2021
The report examines existing research to gain a better understanding of both risk and protective factors relating to why some members of society cause harm to people with disability. A
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Technology increasingly used to ‘victimise and control’ women with intellectual disability

Nas Campanella
ABC News
Wednesday 1st September, 2021
Women with cognitive and intellectual disability are increasingly being abused through technology, with perpetrators monitoring their behaviour, tracking their movements and encouraging them to share naked images, a new Australian
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