About DARU
DARU is unique in Australia as a dedicated resource unit funded to work with disability advocacy organisations to promote and protect the rights of people with disability. We develop and distribute resources and provide training opportunities to keep disability advocates informed and up-to-date about issues affecting people with disability in Victoria. DARU also hosts regular professional development events including;
Advocacy Sector Conversations forum series and
Strengthening Disability Advocacy Conference
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Directory of organisations for agencies delivering disability advocacy as well as complaints bodies, campaigners, support groups and useful referral and information services.
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Info sheet with overview of advocacy types, what disability advocates do, why we need advocacy, shifting social models and how advocacy is funded in Victoria.
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The internet thinks you're a robot, and other 'dark patterns' people with disabilities face online
CAPTCHA security tests, or the "Completely Automated Public Turing Test, to Tell Computers and Humans Apart", are not always accessible to people with disabilities — sometimes putting them, ridiculously, in the "robot" category.
‘It is time for the NDIS to catch up’: Disability advocates call to fund access to sex work
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal this week ruled in favour of a woman with multiple sclerosis who applied for sex therapy funding in her NDIS plan, but was refused by the National Disability Insurance Agency. The Morrison government has already indicated the NDIA will appeal the ruling, which said the woman should receive $10,000 a year to fund her treatment.
Woman with disability wins NDIS funding for sex therapist in 'precedent-setting' case
For the first time, a person with a disability has won the right to have a sex therapist paid for under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), but advocates say the ruling does not go far enough.
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