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- Creative Storytelling Competition for LGBTQIA+ People with Disability
PWDA invites LGBTQIA+ people with disability to share their stories as part of our Community Attitudes project — a national awareness and education program focused on building inclusion in workplaces and communities. We are looking for creative, real stories that reflect the diversity of our community and challenge stigma and discrimination. - Learn how to join the Aviation disability standards consultationAs a group PWDA, AFDO and JEC are hosting a Community Information Forum to help people in the disability community participate in the new aviation disability standards consultation.
- NDIS changes start today: what you need to knowNew laws making significant changes to the NDIS start taking effect today, Thursday 27 August 2026. Here is what people with disability need to know about the changes happening now and what is coming next.
- Twenty years of the CRPD Event Wrap-UpPWDA hosted an event to mark Twenty years of the United Nations Convention on the Rights for People with Disabilities (CRPD): From Commitment to Change
- PWDA welcomes Senate rejection of automated aged care assessments, warns against repeating the harm in the NDISPWDA welcomed the Senate’s recognition of the harm caused by automated aged care assessments and warned the Federal Government not to repeat the same mistakes in the NDIS.
- A devastating day for people with disability as NDIS Bill passesPWDA has condemned the passage of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, condemning Parliament for proceeding despite the overwhelming evidence of the unacceptable and foreseeable harm these changes will cause people with disability, our families and carers, and the Australian economy.
- PWDA slams Senate Committee’s Recommendation to Pass the NDIS BillPWDA condemns the Senate Committee’s recommendation that the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 proceed.
- Complete the PWDA Survey on Inclusive Communities Fund
Complete the PWDA Survey to Help Shape our submission on a proposed Inclusive Communities Fund to help community organisations become more inclusive and accessible. - Megan Spindler-Smith, National Press Club Address 10 August 2026Speaking at the National Press Club, PWDA Acting CEO Megan Spindler-Smith said the Bill abandoned the original promise of the NDIS by asking people with disability to pay the price for a policy choice the Government did not have to make.
- “Rip it up”: PWDA urges Parliament to reject NDIS Bill and start againPWDA has called on Parliament to reject the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, warning the Government has chosen to cut participant supports instead of fixing the institutions responsible for administering and safeguarding the Scheme.
- Joint Communiqué: Disability Representative Organisation and Legal Roundtable on the NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026Communiqué following Disability Representative Organisations and Legal Roundtable to discuss the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026.
- MEDIA RELEASE: PWDA warns new evidence shows Government is not ready for sweeping NDIS reformsPWDA is warning the Government is pushing ahead with the biggest changes in the NDIS before the agencies responsible for delivering them have demonstrated they are ready.
- PWDA launches the Community Attitudes projectCommunity Attitudes is here! People with Disability Australia (PWDA) is excited to launch the Community Attitudes project. A new national project promoting the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ people with disability in workplaces and communities.
- The NDIS helps Zeahn live safely with the level of support he needs every dayOur Reasonable. Necessary. Ordinary campaign asked “What does the NDIS make possible in your everyday life?” This is Zeahn’s story.
- How to make a Parliamentary SubmissionPWDA help with Building your own Submission including What is a parliamentary submission? Supportive links and a template to build your own.
- These changes are not the true intent of the schemeAs part of our Reasonable. Necessary. Ordinary campaign we asked our followers “What does the NDIS make possible in your everyday life?”
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