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Australian Bureau of Statistics Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers 2022

2022 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers statistics on discrimination abuse and neglect, and social and community participation for people with disability

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PWDA Statement on Hate Crimes Bill

PWDA’s response to the Federal Government Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024.

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AI For All – An Equitable Regulatory Framework for Australia

PWDA welcomed the opportunity to provide a submission to the Department of Industry, Science and Resources on Safe and Responsible AI in Australia

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Submission: Disability and forced marriage

Submission to the Attorney-General’s Department’s Enhancing Civil Protections and Remedies for Forced Marriage Consultation Paper.

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New NDIS support lists have started. This is what we know so far.

On Tuesday 1 October 2024, the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) released the NDIS support lists that define what supports the NDIS can pay for.

This blog post focuses on the NDIS support lists and what we currently know about them.

Transitional support lists only as good as the process to develop them. PWDA says this must not happen again.

The Australian Government has today released the transitional lists of what can and cannot be funded by the NDIS. PWDA is deeply concerned that these lists are only being made available less than two days before they come into effect with no guarantee that the information and how it impacts individual plans will be communicated directly to participants beforehand.