More than 70 of Australia’s leading disability and civil society organisations have endorsed wide-ranging recommendations to reform the nation’s archaic and degrading migration laws.
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Submission to COVID-19 Response Inquiry Panel
This submission will highlight how we can better respond to the needs of people with disability both during and after any future pandemic(s).
Budget Measures to Progress the Disability Agenda in NSW
In this submission, PWDA advocates for a more inclusive and supportive environment across housing, safety, community engagement, and health and education services for individuals with disabilities.
Response to the Medicare Telehealth Draft Report
The evolution of transport technologies has the potential to increase the independence, inclusion, transport access and safety of people with disability.
National Road Transport Technology
The evolution of transport technologies has the potential to increase the independence, inclusion, transport access and safety of people with disability.
Building Access End of Project Report
Building Access aims to better meet the needs of women and children with disability when accessing domestic and family violence (DFV) frontline services.
Needs Assessment & Gap Analysis Findings: Advancing Women with Disability in the Workplace
The Advancing Women with Disability in the Workplace project seeks to increase the representation of women with disability in leadership roles; increase participation in the workplace by women with disability.
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NDIS Review | Submission 3 to the Independent Review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
From March to July 2023, PWDA conducted consultations with people with disability on their experiences of the NDIS. This involved several focus groups and surveys on the experiences of people with disability with the NDIS (including one Easy Read version). Participants in these consultations primarily involved people with disability with a broad array of experiences. Some families, carers and support people of also participated in the surveys and focus groups, but represented a small percentage of participants and predominantly participated as representatives of people with disability.
Australia’s Disability Representative Organisations Call for Healing
As Disability Representative Organisations, we jointly acknowledge there will come a time when we will need to discuss the response to the final recommendations of the Disability Royal Commission, with the people who have been the most hurt at the heart of this response. We will do this in our own time, and our own space.
Hear us: end the segregation, end the exclusion of people with disability
It is time to honour our fundamental human rights. It is time to respect the stories we have shared. Hear us. The time for justice, for healing to begin, is now. We demand nothing less.