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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) made a submission to the Department of Social Services’ Review of the Disability Support Pension Impairment Tables. PWDA also made a submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into the purpose, intent and…
