Blog - People with Disability Australia

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First Nations people with disability and the criminal justice system – Part 2

Part 2: Marisa Sposaro (Doin’ Time, 3CR) interviews Peta MacGillivray (Social Policy and Research, UNSW Sydney) on First Nations people with disability and the criminal justice system.

First Nations people with disability and the criminal justice system – Part 1

Part 1: Marisa Sposaro (Doin’ Time, 3CR) interviews Professor Eileen Baldry (Criminologist, UNSW Sydney) on First Nations people with disability and the criminal justice system.

[Photograph of Alex Creece, a white woman with short hair, large colourful glasses, a knitted jumper with a fruit pattern, smiles at the camera. Behind her is the ocean, a peer, and part of the shore.]

Rethinking recruitment

It seems fair that the person who says the right things, the person who fits, should win the job. Yet therein lies an implication that you are as valuable as your charisma. Not your skills, knowledge, or potential to grow, writes Alex Creece.

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The Stolen Generation and the Disability Royal Commission

3CR’s Gavin Moore interviews Lisa Zammit, CEO of Connecting Home, about disability services for the stolen generation, and recommendations she would like to see from the Disability Royal Commission.

[IMAGE Photograph of Hannah Diviney, a smiling, young white woman with dark hair, wearing a red floral top. The handlebars of her wheelchair are visible behind her shoulders.]

They’re denying us a basic human right, and that will never be okay

I eventually won the fight to get the provisions I needed, but the road was convoluted and demeaning, writes Hannah Diviney.

[IMAGE Photograph of Issy Hay, a smiling young, white person with a purple fringe, leaf earrings, a nose ring and a plaid blazer.]

Accessible education should be the norm, not the alternative

I don’t think I will ever be able to describe what it meant to me, the first time a teacher asked “What can I do to make this easier for you, to support you?” That should be the norm, writes Issy Hay.

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Adventures of the boy who was told he’d never speak

For year 7, I started at a little school in the NSW outback with an enrolment of 150 students from K-12. At first, there were no problems, then things started to go wrong, writes William McIntosh.