Disability
Jobs and housing: People with disabilities need a fair go

Australia’s Disability Strategy National Forum recently addressed inequalities, like housing ...  
Services Australia: The department of inhuman services

The government's human services department is in desperate need of reform after struggling to ...  
Jobs Summit skims over solutions to disability employment

The Jobs Summit highlighted the Albanese Government's need to improve on its disability employment ...  
NDIS: Bad help not better than no help at all

The NDIS is pumping feel-good stories through social media channels at a robust rate, but for ...  
Chief Medical Officer's COVID comment leaves the vulnerable gasping

After CMO Paul Kelly recently likened COVID deaths to "reaping", a disabled woman tells of how sh ...  
Disadvantaged frustrated over Government's refusal to raise JobSeeker

Poverty is crippling many Australians and is a problem that the Albanese Government needs to fix ...  
Para-equestrians discriminated against in competition scandal

Australia's peak equestrian body has come under fire for not giving disabled athletes a chance to ...  
Watchdog opens probe into Gail Ennis' fines on the poor and disabled

U.S. Social Security Inspector General Gail Ennis is being investigated into shameful fines ...  
Mental health: Why our voice matters

Convinced it was their destiny to rot away inside a mental health system with limited capacity to ...  
Independents: Putting paid to patch-up politics

Luke Hinsley intends to run in the upcoming Federal Election as an Independent because "we need ...  
People with disabilities marginalised in politics and wider society

Diversity in Australia’s federal and state parliaments has been a hot topic for debate in recent ...  
Disability advocates condemn neglect of chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers

The Australian medical community is ignoring research and promoting outdated information in the ...  
Ripped off: NDIS users failed by clueless Coalition

The NDIS continues to embed structural stigma into its service delivery. Meanwhile, the Coalition ...  
People living with disability have a dignified right to sex

Graeme Sparkes reviews a new memoir that explores the bond a mother shares with her son who is ...  
Sex and disability: The right to intimate connection

In this personal account, a mother explores the health and quality-of-life benefits of sex work in ...  
Climate change threatens the lives of people with disabilities

As a person with a disability, I was not ready for climate change.  
An open letter to the Morrison Government: I can't stop being disabled

Luke Hinsley writes an open letter detailing his distress after Centrelink refused financial ...  
#5 TOP IA STORY OF 2020: Scott Morrison's Pentecostal beliefs have affected Liberal Party policies

The impact of Scott Morrison's Pentacostal beliefs concern many Australians, as shown by this ...  

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