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. You can listen to the interview here: Transcript Gavin Moore: Hi everybody, welcome to 3CR. My name’s Gavin Moore, and I’m conducting an interview with Lisa… Continue Reading The Stolen Generation and the Disability Royal Commission
A huge thank you to everyone who signed our open letter to the Attorney-General, or wrote in yourselves, asking for changes to legislation to protect the confidentiality of submissions and information provided to the Disability Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. The good news is: We have been heard! The Attorney-General has responded… Continue Reading #MakeItSafeToSpeak Campaign Update:
I eventually won the fight to get the provisions I needed, but the road was convoluted and demeaning, writes Hannah Diviney. Continue Reading They’re denying us a basic human right, and that will never be okay
My heart aches for all the other disabled young people, stuck between discriminatory education or none at all, because they weren’t as lucky as I was to find an alternative. Continue Reading Accessible education should be the norm, not the alternative
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. Continue Reading The Adventures Of The Boy Who Was Told He’d Never Speak
People with disability must be heard during Our Royal Commission The Disability Royal Commission is holding hearings between now and the end of the year addressing the the following issues: the experiences of people with disability in the criminal justice system, and long-term detention, the experiences of First Nations people with disability, training and education… Continue Reading Paid opportunity