Meet the PWDA Board! Join us Wednesday 29 June 2022, 6-8pm (AEST), to meet your PWDA Board members and discuss a range of topics. When: Wednesday 29 June, 6pm-8pm AESTWhere: Zoom (Link sent following registration)Register: Members will receive an email to register | Please register by…
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Welcome to PWDA, Deputy CEO Carolyn Hodge
We’re pleased to announce that Carolyn Hodge has been appointed by our Board as PWDA’s new Deputy CEO and will commence in the role on 4 July 2022. We look forward to welcoming Carolyn to our team to help us advance…
Time to update your member details!
We’ve been making some improvements to our membership database and are using this as an opportunity to make sure that the information we hold about you is accurate and up-to-date. If your details have changed, we kindly ask you to…
Election Participation and Disability Webinars recordings
On 26 April and 16 May 2022, we hosted webinars with the Australian Electoral Commission to help empower people with disability to participate in the upcoming federal election. We discuss voting issues for people with disability and how you can…
Disability advocates rank major parties on disability election commitments
Disability advocates have scored Australia’s major parties and several key independents on the election commitments they’re making in relation to people with disability – and so far it looks like the Greens along with Tasmania’s Andrew Wilkie are leading the…
Group of 65 organisations and experts call for reform to laws that stop people with disability from voting
On 21 May this year, most adult Australians will vote in the Federal Election. However, there is a whole section of our community who can be removed from the Electoral Roll and disallowed from having their say: people deemed to…
Labor’s NDIS Reform Plan Welcomed By National Peak Disability Org
People With Disability Australia (PWDA) has welcomed a suite of Labor election commitments in relation to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), calling them “a good plan that responds well to what people with disability and our families have been…
Wage equity and more choices in employment for people with an intellectual disability: Research review
In April 2022, Inclusion Australia and People with Disability Australia commissioned a brief review of the evidence available about the experiences of people with an intellectual disability working in sheltered workshops, also known as Australian Disability Enterprises (ADEs). This review…
Peak disability org seeks Federal Election commitments around safety, security and support for people with disability
Disability advocates want the next federal government to deliver people with disability better protection from COVID, better jobs and financial security, better housing and better support through the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The Federal Government is expected to call…
Peak Disability Org Says Labor’s Budget Reply Needs More Detail
Australia’s peak disability rights and advocacy organisation has welcomed some of the provisions in Labor’s reply to the 2022-23 Federal Budget but says that the Opposition’s response is lacking in detail about measures to support people with disability. PWDA President…