Students with disabilities showcase new filmmaking skills
The film industry hasn’t always been inclusive for people with an intellectual disability, but this program seeks to change that.
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Inside the Disability Royal Commission’s Final Report
The Disability Royal Commission Final Report spans 12 volumes, over 2.5 million words and includes 222 recommendations. Jess Quilty takes us through some of the key recommendations for the NDIS and broader quality and safeguarding landscape.
The argument for and against phasing out special schools
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
Spring 2023 Edition of the Canberra Disability Review
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.
Calls for more flexible exam adjustments for Tasmanian students with learning disabilities
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.
Disability royal commission seeks guardianship and administration reform, lifting blanket gag laws
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.
It can be hard for people with disability to enter the workforce, but more businesses are becoming inclusive
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
Ecosystem of supports
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
It’s time to listen
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
Understanding the Disability Royal Commission recommendations
Inclusion Australia believes that everyone should be part of the important conversation about what happens next following the publication of the report. That’s why we have written this Easy Read guide to help people understand the big recommendations by the Royal Commission.
Australians with Disabilities Face Pervasive Abuse
After a four-and-a-half-year national investigation involving over 9,000 accounts and 32 public hearings, an Australian commission issued a comprehensive and incriminating 4,872-page report on abuses against people with disabilities.
All-abilities singing group builds confidence in aspiring performers with disabilities
When Tahj Burns is on stage singing to an audience, his shyness melts away and his confidence and charisma shine. The 20-year-old, who lives with autism, says performing as part of an all-abilities singing group in Wauchope on the New South Wales Mid North Coast has been life-changing.
‘Wildly inadequate’: Senator calls out Australia’s segregated school phase-out plan
A Greens Senator and prominent disability advocate has described a proposed 30-year phase-out of separate schools for students with disabilities as “wildly inadequate”, calling for the deadline to be brought up from the early 2050s to 2030.
The disability commission was split on special schools. Those with lived experience want them closed
Disability Royal Commissioner Dr Rhonda Galbally said governments should give significant weight to her own and two colleagues’ lived experience with disabilities when deciding whether to back their call for all special schools to be shut within 30 years, after the commission split over the future of segregated education.
The disability royal commission report is monumental. All Australians must confront its findings
Today the 4.4 million members of the disability community woke holding our breath. After four and a half years of the disability royal commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability, the final report was tabled in parliament and released to the public.