Monday 6 May 2013 People with Disability Australia today calls on Myer to explain why they are refusing to engage with the Australian Human Rights Commission on employment of people with disability. There is evidence that people with disability are important customers and solid employees for business. We believe Myer should embrace Graeme Innes’s challenge to […]
Thursday 2 May 2013 People with Disability Australia (PWDA) welcomes an historic day in Australian politics and the lives of people with disability. “Today the government and opposition put politics aside in an election year to truly give people with disability across Australia a fair go,” said Craig Wallace, President of People with Disability Australia. […]
Thursday 2 May 2013 People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has welcomed yesterday’s statements by the Prime Minister which suggest the Government would be prepared to bring legislation for an increase to the Medicare levy to fund DisabilityCare Australia, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), into Parliament before the election if there was bipartisan support. “Now […]
Wednesday 1 May 2013 People with Disability Australia (PWDA) welcomes the announcement by the federal government of an increase to the Medicare levy to fund DisabilityCare Australia, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). “Although only providing for $3 billion of the estimated $8 billion a year required, this is a step in the right direction […]
Wednesday 20 March 2013 People with Disability Australia (PWDA) President Craig Wallace today questioned an apparent decision to remove responses and comments of people with disability, their families and friends from Your Say, the federal government’s online National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) forum. On Monday 18 March, the National Disability Insurance Scheme was rebranded DisabilityCare. Many people with disability, […]
Thursday 14 March 2013 People with Disability Australia (PWDA) applaud the decision handed down today by the Federal Court in the case of PWDA member, Julia Haraksin’s three-year battle with Murrays Australia Ltd. The Court found Murrays Australia had directly discriminated against Ms Haraksin when they refused to accept a booking from her because none […]