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Media release: A ‘jobs’ budget must include accessible jobs for people with disability

Without targeted measures, in a tightening labour market, people with disability will continue to be excluded from mainstream employment. This budget has missed a critical opportunity to turn the tables, and that is a shame.

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Bad medication

A bad experience with medication can leave lasting trauma and close us off to truly helpful and positive use later, writes Ashley Waite.

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Visits to the hospital

As an autistic, mentally ill, transgender person with disability, Pippin Latham shares some experiences receiving medical care in hospital.

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I used to know and love, my mind

Musician and writer, Heidi Everett, shares her experiences of psychotropic medications and hospital admission.

We call upon the Attorney-General to introduce legislation to protect the confidentiality of information given to the Royal Commission

The Disability Royal Commission is expected to run for 3 years. However, it has now run for over a year without adequate legislation in place to protect the confidentiality of submissions beyond the life of the Royal Commission. As it…

We are concerned about ‘Independent Assessments’ for the NDIS

Last week, the Australian Government responded to the Tune Review Report, supporting, or supporting in principle, 29 recommendations to make the NDIS less complex, and to support fair access and easier navigation of the scheme. However, like many in the…

Landmark NDIS Reforms

Today the Australian Government responded to the Tune Review, supporting or supporting in principle all 29 recommendations. We look forward to working with the Australian Government on continually improving the NDIS by implementing the recommendations. These recommendations are a step…

Farewell to our CEO, Jeff Smith

We have difficult news today, with our CEO Jeff Smith resigning. Jeff had a serious medical episode on Wednesday night, and remains in hospital being treated.Jeff has worked tirelessly, particularly since March and the beginning of the pandemic, to ensure…

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Supporting our support workers

Interacting with people when a person has COVID-19 may become unavoidable if there’s no alternative arrangements. For many people with disability, isolation is not an option, writes Claudia Forsberg.

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Welcome to my world

There is an aversion of gaze, amongst even the most socially aware able-bodied journalists, concerning the discrimination people with disability live with every day writes Kate Hood.