People with Disability Australia (PWDA) made a submission on the Government’s proposed NDIS Legislative Changes and Participant Service Guarantee. The Commonwealth Government is introducing a reform package to the NDIS in the form of an amendment to the National Disability…
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What’s in the COVID19 disability vaccine rollout debacle report?
This blog was originally posted on Our Royal Commission Website. On Monday, the Disability Royal Commission released a draft report about the evidence from Public hearing 12: The experiences of people with disability, in the context of the Australian Government’s…
Disability Royal Commission Report Backs Push To Speed Up COVID Vax Rollout For People With Disability
Disability advocates say the Federal Government needs to heed the Disability Royal Commission’s latest call for improved vaccination measures to protect the lives of people with disability before states start to open up from COVID lockdowns. Today the Royal Commission…
#SpeedUpVaxForPWD
Help protect the lives of people with disability being put at risk by the race to reopen from COVID lockdowns. Share your stories and help inject some humanity into the debate. Many people with disability are extremely concerned about the…
Sebastian Zagarella Announced As New CEO For PWDA
The board of People With Disability Australia is pleased to announce that following an internal recruitment process, PWDA’s Interim CEO Sebastian Zagarella has accepted an offer from the Board to become PWDA’s CEO on a permanent basis. The appointment is…
PWDA Strategic Planning: Member Survey Result
On 28 July 2021, PWDA launched a survey of our membership. Respondents were asked what they would like PWDA to prioritise over the next three years. The survey ran until 23 August 2021 and received 120 responses. Thank you so…
PWDA’s Submission To The Joint Select Committee On The Implementation Of The National Redress Scheme
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) made two submissions to the Joint Select Committee, informed by our direct redress related work, in November 2020 and most recently in August 2021. In our most recent submission to the Joint Select Committee, we…
Advocates Fear People With Disability Set For COVID Lockdown Limbo As Race To Reopen Leaves Them Behind
Disability advocates are concerned that people with disability are set to languish in lockdown when the states and territories open up again unless the Federal Government amps up COVID vaccination programs for clinically vulnerable people. As locked-down states begin to…
Disability Advocates Condemn Use Of ‘Underlying Health Conditions’ As COVID Death Explainer
Disability advocates are lashing government ministers and bureaucrats for victim-blaming people dying from COVID-19 by saying they died with ‘underlying health conditions’. The hashtag #UnderlyingHealthConditions is currently trending on Twitter, with people with disability protesting that having a disability or…
Media Alert: Disability Advocates To Condemn Widespread Failings Of Disability Support Pension At Parliamentary Inquiry
Today representatives from People with Disability Australia (PWDA) and the Antipoverty Centre will be giving evidence at a federal parliamentary inquiry to detail how the Disability Support Pension (DSP) is failing people with disability. PWDA Senior Manager of Policy Giancarlo de…