It’s a week since the Disability Royal Commission handed down it’s report and debate is still raging over one of the recommendations… to phase out special schools. The commission was split on the decision, and it appears that many Australian families living with disability are too. So what are the arguments for and against? And … Continued
This is a unique time for disability policy in Australia. We are acutely aware that for the past decade, public rhetoric has focused almost exclusively on the NDIS to the exclusion of all else. It is time for this to change! This paper comprehensively maps out where and how services are provided to older people … Continued
Closing date: November 29, 2023
Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) has commenced public consultation on financial enduring powers of attorney model laws – please see: https://consultations.ag.gov.au/families-and-marriage/epoa/. The Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety encourages organisations and/or your national peak bodies to provide feedback directly to the Commonwealth AGD through the survey questions or a separate submission by 29 November 2023. … Continued
The Spring 2023 Edition of the Canberra Disability Review is out now. It’s online and free and has a focus on the justice system and disability. Articles include lived experience contributions that highlight the compounded disadvantage for the disproportionate number of people with disability who are incarcerated.
Closing date: November 19, 2023
VMIAC have two exciting PAID opportunities for people with lived experience of psychosocial disability, mental ill health and/or using mental health services who are current NDIS participants or are interested in the NDIS. What is this project? Navigating My Way is a project run by VMIAC working directly with people with psychosocial disability to make resources … Continued
The NDIS Review panel have received more than 3,800 submissions from participants, their families and those that support them. These are now being published on the NDIS Review website – submissions page. It is important to note only the submissions that indicated and agreed to make them public are being published.
On the new episode, Dr George speaks to Alastair McEwin, Former Commissioner, Disability Royal Commission about what the findings of the Commission will mean for the disability community.
Closing date: November 19, 2023
VMIAC have 2 exciting PAID opportunities for people with lived experience of psychosocial disability, mental ill health and/or using mental health services who are current NDIS participants or are interested in the NDIS. What is this project? Navigating My Way is a project run by VMIAC working directly with people with psychosocial disability to make … Continued
The federal government last week released the report of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, which painted a confronting picture and recorded the calls of disabled people “for a more inclusive Australia”. The commission made more than 220 recommendations, and was conducted at a cost to the taxpayer … Continued
Like most year 11 students, Angus Bayley is feeling the pressure of end-of-year exams. But Angus isn’t like every other student — he is in the 25th percentile for processing, meaning it takes him a lot longer to read and understand information than most students his age.
Closing date: October 16, 2023
The Referendum will take place this Saturday 14 October! It is compulsory for all Australians over the age of 18 to vote. The Australian Electoral Commission has this information to support people with disability to vote: https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/vote/accessibility.html
A letter from a stranger and an hour-long meeting is all it took to strip Martin* of his ability to see his family and live in his own home. A state guardian now controls his life, against his will, because a tribunal deemed him incapable of making his own decisions.
Despite one in five Australians living with a disability, the jobless rate for people with disabilities remains stubbornly high. Working aged people with a disability are twice as likely to be unemployed (10 per cent) as those without a disability (4.6 per cent). Tasmanian man Finn Graham-Hilder is bucking the trend after he landed a role … Continued
We’ve talked about the need to re-imagine disability supports outside the scheme, and we are thinking of them as a new of category of community wide ‘foundational supports’. Currently, there is not enough support for people with disability outside the NDIS. Support for Australians with disability is not planned, funded or governed as a whole … Continued
The Disability Royal Commission has made history. To honour this moment and the people who shared their stories, we’re slowing down our pace to make sure we get the analysis right. But for those of you who don’t know where to start on a 5,000 page Report (i.e. everyone), we’ve put together a reading guide … Continued