Disability
International Day of People with Disabilities: Amplification gone wrong

Not all people with disabilities are equal in a media landscape bombarded with binary narrative ...  
Parliamentary changes to NDIS making life harder for disabled

The NDIS has undergone fundamental changes, but these changes have been poorly communicated to ...  
'Insiders' ignores hard facts of housing crisis

A discussion on ABC's Insiders sidelined the plight of the elderly and disabled through Austral ...  
Serious reform needed to address growing Australian mental health crisis

With the Federal Election being two years ago today, this is the mental health reform we should ...  
Locked inside units and outside disability reform

Two hundred and twenty-eight recommendations. That was the result of four years of hearings ...  
Ignorance is not bliss: Including people with disabilities in Australian society

We have a long way to go to ensure that people with disabilities are fully included in all aspects ...  
Wheels of fortune

This short story is an IA Writing Competition (fiction category) entry.  
Disabled access in the arts a shared responsibility

While there is a great deal of goodwill in the arts, more must be done to identify and address ...  
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 ...  
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