Disability Royal Commission Report Backs Push To Speed Up COVID Vax Rollout For People With Disability

27 September 2021

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 into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability released the draft Commissioners’ Report… Continue Reading Disability Royal Commission Report Backs Push To Speed Up COVID Vax Rollout For People With Disability

Advocates Fear People With Disability Set For COVID Lockdown Limbo As Race To Reopen Leaves Them Behind

13 September 2021

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 share their roadmaps out of lockdown, people with disability are preparing to remain isolated at… Continue Reading Advocates Fear People With Disability Set For COVID Lockdown Limbo As Race To Reopen Leaves Them Behind

Disability Advocates Condemn Use Of ‘Underlying Health Conditions’ As COVID Death Explainer

8 September 2021

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 chronic health condition ‘was not a death sentence’ if they did not contract the virus.… Continue Reading Disability Advocates Condemn Use Of ‘Underlying Health Conditions’ As COVID Death Explainer

Media Alert: Disability Advocates To Condemn Widespread Failings Of Disability Support Pension At Parliamentary Inquiry

6 September 2021

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 Vera will outline a range of issues raised in two recent submissions made by PWDA… Continue Reading Media Alert: Disability Advocates To Condemn Widespread Failings Of Disability Support Pension At Parliamentary Inquiry

Disability Advocates Say New COVID-19 Vaccine Data Show People With Disability Are Being Left Behind

25 August 2021

Disability advocates have increased pressure on the Federal Government to speed up and broaden the COVID-19 vaccine rollout for people with disability after the release of vaccination data which shows the rollout for people with disability is significantly lagging behind other priority groups. The disability community’s efforts follow months of lobbying by People with Disability… Continue Reading Disability Advocates Say New COVID-19 Vaccine Data Show People With Disability Are Being Left Behind