When Daniel McDonald severely cut his feet at home, and started bleeding heavily, his first instinct was to call an ambulance. He couldn’t. “How am I going to call 000? What am I going to do?” Daniel said. Daniel is deaf. When alone, there is no way he can verbalise an emergency to paramedics.
Every person with a disability who uses the NDIS has the right to good quality and safe services. As part of our Your Service, Your Rights project Inclusion Australia have created a set of Conversation Cards for people with an intellectual disability.
When Tara Gill graduated alongside her six classmates on Friday at a ceremony in the New South Wales suburb of Jerrabomberra, the tears were flowing, That’s because higher education had long seemed out of reach for Ms Gill, who lives with an intellectual disability and suffers anxiety.
A group of six Victorians is taking cinema chain Hoyts to court, alleging the majority of movie sessions are inaccessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members. Deaf Victoria general manager Philip Waters joined Ali Moore to discuss the case, with Expression Australia certified interpreter Maxine Buxton.
Ever since Hannah* was a teen, she had dreamt of a career in medicine. Now a GP in a rural hospital, Hannah’s dream has come true — but says her journey to get there has been traumatic. Hannah has battled several diseases for much of her life.
When comedian Adam Hills, who was born without a right foot, was a child, doctors advised his parents, Bob and Judy, not to rush to his aid when he fell over.
Australia’s new Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Rosemary Kayess, said we need to reframe how Australians think about disability, and address social structures that prevent people with disability from participating equally in society. Commissioner Kayess said there is a unique opportunity to transform the lives of people with disability following the Disability Royal Commission and the Independent … Continued
Deaf and hard-of-hearing filmgoers say technology issues and lack of film screenings with subtitles make cinema sessions inaccessible.
Australia’s former disability discrimination commissioner, Graeme Innes, has settled his dispute with Adelaide Airport. His complaint to the Human Rights Commission was lodged after being denied access to a body scanner with his assistance dog in May 2022. Unfortunately, Innes’ experience will resonate widely with Australia’s 4.4 million people with disability.
When Sam Bailey became a quadriplegic at 19, he was advised to get an office job in town. Instead he made his farm wheelchair-accessible
The beach is Australia’s most popular recreation destination, but for 45 per cent of people with a disability it is impossible to access the beach. CQUniversity’s U-BEACH project is a collaborative community-led team striving to improve beach accessibility and ensure people with disability enjoy their highest attainable standard of health and wellbeing.
A University of Melbourne research program run in conjunction with Melbourne Youth Orchestras, the Adaptive Music Bridging Program, has proudly seen its first cohort of students take to the stage for their debut performance.
Young people with disability are active participants in the online world and enjoy playing games, posting content and just hanging out with friends.
This report builds on the Actuaries Institute’s May 2023 Green Paper that found inequality in Australia is significantly higher than in the 1980s.
For Thomas Mackenlay, the hardest part of wheelchair basketball is shooting for the hoop. It hasn’t stopped the nine-year-old from wanting to pursue the sport further. “I said to my mum I wanted to play basketball and she got me into the program at Frankston Basketball,” he said.