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1 March 2010

Positions Vacant

• Manager, Individual and Group Advocacy - Based in Mount Isa and Gulf Country Region Queensland
  - click here to download an Information Package for Applicants (116kb - Word)
  
  
• Advocate - Based in the Mount Isa and Gulf Country Region Queensland
  - click here to download an Information Package for Applicants (113kb - Word)

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12th March 2010 - Media Release
Forced sterilisation of children with disability is unacceptable

People with Disability Australia (PWD) is calling upon governments across Australia to develop uniform, national legislation that prohibits the sterilisation of children and young people and ensures that any procedure that effectively results in sterilisation is undertaken only if the child's life is at risk or there is a serious threat to their health...read more

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PWD E-Bulletin Number 59, February 2010

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Training Calendar - March to June 2010

PWD is currently offering 4 new courses plus inhouse specific training for your organisation.

Training Brochure & Registration Form (pdf) (122kb)

Training Brochure & Registration Form (word) (1.42MB)

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Position Statement on the Health of People with Intellectual Disabilities

PWD has joined with many individuals and organisations across Australia to endorse a position statement calling on the Australian and State and Territory Governments to work together to redress the inequity in health care experienced by people with intellectual disability.  The statement has been developed by the NSW Council for Intellectual Disability (NSW CID), the National Council for Intellectual Disability (NCID) and the Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine. Click here to read this position statement.

The statement outlines there are over 300,000 people with intellectual disability in Australia with very high rates of health problems and these problems are often not diagnosed or appropriately treated.  Life expectancy is reduced by up to 20 years.  There are many causes of this situation, ranging across communication barriers between patients and health professionals, complexity of diagnosis, lack of general and specialised skills in the health workforce, and health promotion campaigns and research not focusing on people with intellectual disability.

As well as the human and financial cost of poor health for people with intellectual disabilities and their families, there is considerable financial cost to the health, social security and disability service systems. 

The statement calls on all Governments to establish a national network of intellectual disability health services. Individuals and organisations are still able to endorse the position statement.

NSW CID is currently asking interested individuals and organisations to lobby Labour Members of Parliament to bring this issue forward in the NSW State budget process and is able to provide a submission to assist with anyone undertaking this lobbying. 

For further information or to endorse the statement, please contact NSW CID on telephone (02) 9211 1611; freecall 1800 424 065; or email mail@nswcid.org.au

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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Have your Say

Leading disability organisations have partnered to form a project group which is compiling a Shadow Report on Australia's implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

The aim of the Shadow Report is to make recommendations to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. These recommendations will provide the basis for the United Nations recommendations to the Australian Government regarding Australia's implementation of the Articles of the Convention. The project group has finished a national consultation process with many representative organisations of people with disability and disability advocacy organisations.

Individuals with disability can provide their views and issues to the project group by completing the online survey at www.disabilityrightsnow.org.au/node/78.

Organisations can provide their views by completing the workbook at www.disabilityrightsnow.org.au/node/77

More information about this project is available at www.disabilityrightsnow.org.au

Click here for more information about PWD's involvement in the development of the CRPD

Email us at pwd@pwd.org.au

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