With COVID-related travel restrictions to regional NSW set to ease next week, disability advocates are calling for restrictions to remain in place for regions with low vaccination rates in order to protect the lives of people with disability who are…
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Disability advocates hold grave concerns that sluggish efforts to vaccinate people with disability in NSW will mean many disabled people now face sickness and death as the state starts to open up this week from COVID lockdown. National peak disability…
Peak Disability Org Calls For Clarity On Proposed NDIS Reforms
Australia’s peak disability advocacy group is concerned some proposed reforms to the legislation underpinning the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) are too vague and could lead to a range of negative impacts for people on the scheme as well as…
PWDA’s Submission To The Government’s Proposed NDIS Legislative Changes And Participant Service Guarantee
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) made a submission on the Government’s proposed NDIS Legislative Changes and Participant Service Guarantee. The Commonwealth Government is introducing a reform package to the NDIS in the form of an amendment to the National Disability…
What’s in the COVID19 disability vaccine rollout debacle report?
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 Royal Commission Report Backs Push To Speed Up COVID Vax Rollout For People With Disability
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…
#SpeedUpVaxForPWD
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…
Sebastian Zagarella Announced As New CEO For PWDA
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…
PWDA Strategic Planning: Member Survey Result
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…
PWDA’s Submission To The Joint Select Committee On The Implementation Of The National Redress Scheme
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…