Posted July 20, 2018
The Australian Human Rights Commission undertook a project on violence against people with disability in institutional settings. This report outlines the Commission’s findings and recommendations on the ways in which quality, safeguarding and oversight mechanisms that prevent and address violence against people with disability in institutional settings can be strengthened.
Posted July 19, 2018
Closing date: July 31, 2018
In this role you will play a critical role in supporting the implementation of Every opportunity: Victorian economic participation plan for people with disability 2018-20. You will coordinate, contribute to and lead strategies to increase the economic participation of people with disability, both across the Victorian Public Sector and the wider economy.
Posted July 13, 2018
Closing date: July 17, 2018
This position provides counselling and education on an individual and/or group basis to people with disability regarding reproductive and sexual health. e you a Counsellor with experience in cognitive disability? Are you passionate about reproductive and sexual health? Are you interested in making a positive contribution to the lives of people with cognitive disability? If you answer ‘yes’ to these questions, then Family Planning Victoria has a great opportunity for you.
Posted July 13, 2018
The managers of Australia’s $22 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) have been slammed by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) for being “slow”, lacking transparency and being “bloody-minded”. From The Australian:
Posted July 13, 2018
Oliver Morton-Evans has sought the services of sex workers over the years, because dating can be especially tough for anyone with a disability. Despite having tried “every dating app out there”, Oliver, 39, has never been in a long-term relationship.
Posted July 13, 2018
“I spent the first three-and-a-half years of my life in hospital but the best thing my family did was never to wrap me in cotton wool,” says Alcott, who on this forbidding Melbourne morning is rallying against a wall in an underground carpark. “They never cared about the fact I had a disability so I took the view that if they don’t care, why should I?”
Posted July 13, 2018
Closing date: July 30, 2018
This is a casual fixed-term contract running from August to December 2018. Women with Disabilities Victoria (WDV) are looking for a young person (18-25 years) who identifies as a woman having a disability from the local government areas of Knox and Yarra Ranges to assist with the delivery of the Enabling Young Women Leadership Program at Montrose Town Centre.
Posted July 13, 2018
The ordeal of a father battling bowel cancer and Centrelink at the same time is setting social media ablaze, prompting a crowdfunding appeal and an outpouring of rage on Facebook.
Posted July 13, 2018
Closing date: July 31, 2018
You are invited to be part of a study conducted to explore how NDIS clients and/or their carers have experienced support or help from their General Practitioner (GP) during their NDIS journey. This information will help make better decisions about how GP’s can help NDIS users in the future. The survey should take approximately 15 minutes to complete and your responses will be kept confidential.
Posted July 13, 2018
Many of us are no doubt aware of Australia’s woeful ranking as 21 out of 29 OECD countries in employment rates for people with a disability. The hope was that the NDIS, alongside other existing systems such as Disability Employment Services (DES) would significantly improve employment outcomes for people with a disability. While increasing employment opportunities for people with a disability is a systemic issue, to date the uptake of employment supports in NDIS Plans has been disappointingly (and some may say surprisingly) low.
Posted July 13, 2018
Closing date: August 5, 2018
Increasingly people requiring income support because of their disabilities find it difficult to understand, and therefore address, the eligibility requirements of the Disability Support Pension (DSP). This initiative will provide accessible resources and pathways for people with disabilities and their families to obtain information and expert advocacy support.
Posted July 12, 2018
This free online tool has been developed to asses your organisation’s governance, fine-tuning already great organisations. The Governance Healthcheck looks at board structures and policies, and financial structures, including financial oversight and controls. Board/committee members answer a series of questions, either as an individual or as part of a group. The Healthcheck then generates tailored tips and recommendations to improve organisational governance.
Posted July 12, 2018
Deaf people in South Australia are reporting they are regularly forced to cancel medical appointments, delay court hearings or miss work meetings due to a dire shortage of Auslan interpreters. The National Disability Insurance Scheme was meant to improve access to interpreters by providing clients with an interpreting package for work, life and leisure; but instead, it has increased demand and made it more difficult.
Posted July 12, 2018
Reading just got even harder for blind and vision-impaired South Australians, the Royal Society for the Blind says, because the Adelaide-based organisation has lost its federal Print Disability Services Program funding from July 1.
