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- A Voice of Our Own 2026
Join PWDA for A Voice of Our Own, a national event celebrating 45 years of disability-led advocacy, community and action. - Complete Access to Healing and Recovery Services SurveyPWDA invites feminine-identifying people with disability to complete a survey on accessing domestic, family and sexual violence healing and recovery services.
- Free webinar: supporting people with disability in their digital healthcareWebinar: Supporting people with disability in their digital healthcare Register today for this free online digital health learning session Designed for health care professionals this webinar will help you Who should attend? This webinar is ideal for people working in…
- PWDA CEO’s speech from the 2026 Revenue SummitPWDA CEO Megan Spindler-Smith speech at the 2026 Revenue Summit on Choices matter: why collecting more revenue is more efficient than cutting the NDIS panel .
- Improving leadership opportunities for women with disabilityA new report from PWDA shows six lessons employers must learn to help remove barriers preventing women with disability from progressing into leadership.
- Megan Spindler-Smith appointed CEO of People with Disability AustraliaPWDA is pleased to announce the appointment of Megan Spindler-Smith as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
- Webinar: Supporting people with disability in their digital healthcareRegister today for this free online digital health learning session designed for health care professionals to Build your knowledge across digital health tools
- Three Years on from the DRC: Australia needs a Human Rights Act(PWDA) is calling for a National Human Rights Act that gives people with disability stronger, enforceable protection of our rights in Australian law.
- Thriving Kids and Foundational Supports: what you need to knowThriving Kids starts rolling out from 1 October 2026. It is the first phase of a much bigger change to disability supports outside the NDIS.
- More NDIS changes from 1 October: What you need to knowFrom 1 October 2026, significant changes to some NDIS support budgets will begin. Here’s what people with disability need to know.
- Three Years from DRC: Restrictive practices must be eliminatedThree years after the Disability Royal Commission, PWDA is urging governments to commit to eliminating restrictive practices and set out consistent plans for how they will get there.
- Three Years from DRC: Disability discrimination law puts the burden on the people it should protectPWDA is calling for urgent reform of the Disability Discrimination Act so organisations have greater responsibility to prevent discrimination before it happens.
- NDIS changes forum and more information you needPWDA held a NDIS Changes Community Forum to provide practical, accessible information about what is changing, when they will happen and what people can do.
- 20 years of the UNCRPD: What will it take to make rights real?Twenty years on from the UN adoption of the CRPD, the challenge is increasingly clear: how do we turn rights on paper into rights in practice?
- Learn how to join the Aviation disability standards consultationPWDA, AFDO and JEC hosted 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.
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