Posted October 1, 2022
We also had no disabled role models in leadership positions. Growing up, I believed I could only be a disabled athlete or live on disability benefits — I felt I had no other options.
Posted September 27, 2022
This shift, that recognises the urgent need to get more disability expertise on the board, is very welcome and very overdue. The last few years have seen the NDIS move a long way from what disabled people, our families and organisations fought for, and it has a long way to get back.
Posted September 26, 2022
Amy Marks had to wait for hours on the floor of her “inaccessible” Melbourne apartment after she fell while reaching for a glass. Marks can’t reach her kitchen cabinets and has to keep her plates on the floor. Even getting an Uber has become a nightmare as there’s no accessible parking nearby.
Posted September 26, 2022
“[I] aim to destigmatise and normalise disabled bodies and the lived experience of people with disabilities and hopefully, further innovate accessible design and cross-disciplinary practises,” she said.
Posted September 26, 2022
This delightful picture bookexplores the home lives of children and parents who are Deaf or disabled. Featuring a gorgeous die-cut cover, bright illustrations and a diverse cast, this is a must-read for all families. A cast of friendly characters invite friends over for a play – there’s fun to be had, food to eat and families to meet!… RRP $24.99. –
Posted September 16, 2022
When asked to rate disabled people’s quality of life, nondisabled people assume it is low—lower in fact than people with the disability in question rate their own quality of life. This gap between what nondisabled people believe and what people with disabilities actually experience is known as the disability paradox.
Posted September 14, 2022
Australia, the land of the fair go. But do we really live with equal rights and opportunity? Let Us In! explores this theme through the lens of disability. What is it like to live in Australia as a person with disability? Is there a fair go, are we stuck in the past or is it just too hard? Join Kurt Fearnley and Sarah Shands as they unpack some of the big issues for people with disability in modern Australia. Transport, living with COVID, education, access and employment. Things that most people take for granted but for many Australians with disability are a daily struggle.
Posted September 3, 2022
There have been calls at the Jobs and Skills Summit to boost participation of people with disabilities in the workforce.
Posted September 2, 2022
Australia’s first university chancellor who identifies as having a disability says things have improved since the days when his law studies revolved around whatever resources he could obtain in Braille or reel-to-reel audio tape. “I had a smaller range of material,” said lawyer and disability advocate Graeme Innes, who was born blind. “My challenge was that I had to know that material better than other students who could research more broadly than I could.”
Posted September 1, 2022
Disability is often relegated to “second-class” status in student activism. More effort, listening and discernment is needed from other activists to build a genuinely inclusive student movement.
Posted August 30, 2022
Do people with disabilities need to continue learning more about ableism, discrimination, persistent inaccessibility, and social and economic injustice? Or, is it better for their overall outlook and mental health to focus on good news — about successful disabled people’s achievements, opportunities offered by new technologies and innovations, and empowering ways to think about disability itself?
Posted August 30, 2022
The bottom line of that analysis is although … a contested issue, my own view is the better view of the Convention’s obligation, in particular Article 24, is that Australia needs to move progressively over some time to have [a] transformed system with inclusive education, which does not, as a matter of principle, include special schools as a long-term separate form of education. And I think that is also a position taken by the CRPD Committee.”
Posted August 12, 2022
A young Aussie who has tirelessly campaigned to see a princess with a disability introduced to the wonderful world of Disney could be a step closer to achieving that dream.
Posted August 12, 2022
The NDIS eMarket did not proceed. This is an appalling situation. Instead, what the Australian community has been left with is a cadaverous, inert and incomprehensible spreadsheet which is the NDIS services and price catalogue, that has defined more than A$100 billion in supports over this period. You see, it’s not the participants ripping off the NDIS. It’s the market preying on this lack of transparency created by the NDIA’s analogue and antiquated conceptualisation of the pricing catalogue. That it has no feedback function is inherently defective. That it is inaccessible is a breach of human rights.