PWDA Board Director, Tahlia-Rose Vanissum spoke about the ongoing harm experienced by First Nations people with disability and stressed that reform cannot succeed without First Nations leadership, lived experience and real power in decision-making.
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Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
This joint submission with NEDA and WWDA to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) provides general disability rights and specific from CALD backgrounds and women and girls with disability.
Two Years On From the Disability Royal Commission Event Wrap-Up
PWDA hosted a national online forum ‘Two Years On From the Disability Royal Commission’ on Friday 6 February to take stock.
Submission into the Continuing Operation of the National Redress Scheme
PWDA Submission to the Joint Standing Committee Inquiry into the Continuing Operation of the National Redress Scheme.
Submission to the NDIS Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2025
Submission to NDIS Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2025 review The Bill would change the NDIS Act 2013 to give the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission stronger powers, and to make specific operational changes to the NDIA.
Targeted Funding Required to Address Gaps Affecting People with Disability
People with disability were largely invisible in the last Federal Budget. PWDA urges the Government to implement the recommendations outlined in this submission in the 2026/7 Federal Budget.
DROs Respond to Government Agreement on Disability Supports
Disability Representative Organisations respond to Government agreement regarding hospital funding and disability supports and Thriving Kids.
PWDA marches again to put LGBTQIA+ people with disability InFocus
PWDA returned to the streets of Melbourne St Kilda on Sunday 1 February to proudly represent LGBTQIA+ people with disability in the Midsumma Pride March.
PWDA Putting LGBTQIA+ People with Disability InFocus at Midsumma
PWDA will return to the Midsumma Pride March this Sunday for the second year, marching under the banner InFocus: Queer & Disabled.
Register now for PWDA’s Online Forum: Two Years On From the Disability Royal Commission
PWDA invites you to our national online forum to reflect on where we are more than two years after the Disability Royal Commission Final Report was released.