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Fighting financial mismanagement

How Jess managed to overcome financial mismanagement, remove a large debt, and gain her independence.

Brochures

Selection of PWDA Borhcures about our advocacy work and the services we offer, including translated brochures and information.

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We’re Australia’s peak advocacy organisation for people with disability or who are d/Deaf. Since 1981, we’ve been advancing and protecting the rights, health and wellbeing of the people and communities we serve.

[IMAGE Photograph of Hannah Diviney, a smiling, young white woman with dark hair, wearing a red floral top. The handlebars of her wheelchair are visible behind her shoulders.]

They’re denying us a basic human right, and that will never be okay

I eventually won the fight to get the provisions I needed, but the road was convoluted and demeaning, writes Hannah Diviney.

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Bad medication

A bad experience with medication can leave lasting trauma and close us off to truly helpful and positive use later, writes Ashley Waite.

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Visits to the hospital

As an autistic, mentally ill, transgender person with disability, Pippin Latham shares some experiences receiving medical care in hospital.

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I used to know and love, my mind

Musician and writer, Heidi Everett, shares her experiences of psychotropic medications and hospital admission.

5 isolation challenges of a COVID-19 high-risker

As someone at high-risk of dying from the virus (aka ‘high-risker’), I’m over here fighting for my rights to information, healthcare, supplies and to have a say, writes Carlie Park.

Fighting for our rights – the UN delegation

A number of PWDA staff, including our former Co-CEO, are in Geneva this week to support seven people with disability who were chosen as delegates to give evidence to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities…

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They’re denying us a basic human right, and that will never be okay

Bad medication

Visits to the hospital

I used to know and love, my mind

5 isolation challenges of a COVID-19 high-risker

Fighting for our rights – the UN delegation