People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has welcomed a 17-month extension to the Disability Royal Commission (DRC) into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability, now slated to end in September 2023. PWDA chief executive officer Sebastian Zagarella said…
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Media Release: Our board wants disability ministers to prioritise COVID-19 access for people with disability
The board of People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has written to all state-and-territory disability ministers today urging them to ensure people with disability don’t miss out on COVID-19 injections if they want them. PWDA President Samantha Connor said today that…
Media Release: Budget 2021 ‘not a budget for people with disability’
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has welcomed $13.2 billion of funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme but has dubbed the latest Federal Budget “not a budget for people with disability.” The federal government will put in an extra $13.2b…
Media Release: Government’s scare tactics on NDIS is based on ‘dodgy accounting’
The president of People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has reprimanded the Australian Government for using “dodgy accounting” to frighten people about the expected cost of the nation’s National Disability Insurance Scheme. PWDA president Samantha Connor said the government was using…
Media Release: Reforming the Disability Discrimination Act following the Sklavos decision
People with Disability Australia and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre are writing to the Federal Attorney-General Michaelia Cash to urge the Government to introduce legislation to make targeted amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) to counter the effect…
Media Release: What people with disability want from the Federal Budget
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has released a list of asks for the next Federal Budget in a document called A Fair Go for People with Disability (see below). The disabled people’s organisation is calling for a raft of measures…
Media Release: Disability advocates welcome new housing accessibility standards
Disability advocates at peak disability organisation People with Disability Australia have welcomed confirmation from the Building Ministers’ Forum silver-level accessibility standards for all new and extensively modified housing from September next year. PWDA chief executive officer Sebastian Zagarella said the disabled people’s…
Joint Media Release: Terms of engagement for NDIS Minister Reynolds from the disability community
PWDA representatives along with sector partners met with NDIS Minister, the Hon Linda Reynolds MP, today (30 April 2021). They presented senator Reynolds with a formal “terms of engagement” which can be found here.
MEDIA RELEASE: Fears are justified, says PWDA President
This week, I spoke at the Joint Standing Committee on the issues around Independent Assessments. I spoke not in my capacity as President of People with Disability Australia, nor as a board member on any of the other boards that…
Media Release: Disability Advocacy Groups Are Campaigning To Extend The DRC
URGENT: We need more time to end the violence and abuse of people with disability in Australia Disability advocacy organisations are supporting the calls for a 17-month extension to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse Neglect and Exploitation of People…