top of page
Send Us your News and/or Sports Tip:
Search


Tammy Milne details COVID-19 experience to Disability Royal Commission
A woman with a disability spent four days without a support worker during the height of the coronavirus lockdown in North-West Tasmania...

Jonathan Shar
Dec 31, 20222 min read
5 views
0 comments


ACOSS calls on National Cabinet to urgently address crippling Omicron inequities
National Cabinet must find new ways to address the reality that those with the least are being hit hardest by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Australian Council of Social Services
Jan 27, 20223 min read
7 views
0 comments


Disability Sector Slams National Cabinet's Omicron Response
Australia’s peak disability representative organisations have written to National Cabinet to detail the unacceptable risks to the lives...

People with Disability Australia
Jan 25, 20222 min read
7 views
0 comments


Disability Advocates Urge Disability Royal Commission To Hold Emergency Hearing Into Omicron Crisis
The board of Australia’s peak disability rights and advocacy organisation is calling on the Disability Royal Commission (DRC)...

Jonathan Shar
Jan 20, 20223 min read
7 views
0 comments


Omicron Staffing Crunch Putting Lives Of People With Disability At Risk
Disability advocates say the lives and health of people with disability are at risk because of the severe strain that the Omicron variant of

People with Disability Australia
Jan 13, 20223 min read
9 views
0 comments


‘People Will Die;’ People With Disability Lead Push For Free Rapid COVID Tests
Peak advocacy organisation People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has called for the nation’s governments to deliver free rapid antigen te

People with Disability Australia
Jan 4, 20222 min read
16 views
0 comments


Royal Commission final report on COVID-19 vaccine roll-out for people with disability tabled
The Final Commissioners’ Report of Public hearing 12: The experiences of people with disability, in the context of the Australian...

Jonathan Shar
Oct 29, 20212 min read
14 views
0 comments


With COVID Set To Run Free In NSW, Many People With Disability Face A Future Of Fear
Disability advocates hold grave concerns that sluggish efforts to vaccinate people with disabilities in NSW will mean many disabled people

Jonathan Shar
Oct 11, 20213 min read
9 views
0 comments


COVID-19 vaccine strategy and roll-out for people with disability ‘seriously deficient’ draft report
The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has today released the draft Commissioners’

Jonathan Shar
Sep 27, 20213 min read
10 views
0 comments
5m Australians hit by suicide during COVID-19
One in four Australians report knowing someone who died by suicide during the past 12 months of the pandemic – the equivalent of 5 million p

Jonathan Shar
Sep 8, 20213 min read
14 views
0 comments


People with disability ‘will die’ if we follow pandemic approach
People with disabilities and their families are in the midst of the crisis of their lives, especially in New South Wales.

Jonathan Shar
Jul 9, 20213 min read
19 views
0 comments


Parents fret for young children's mental health as lockdown drags on
When six-year-old Hannah heard about the new "singles bubble" for Melbourne’s extended stage four lockdown, she asked her mother why there c

Jonathan Shar
Sep 11, 20203 min read
17 views
0 comments


Tips to bridge the education divide created by COVID-19
As Victorian schools, teachers and students adapt to the pressures of stage four lockdowns, questions have been raised about how inclusive e

Jonathan Shar
Sep 8, 20203 min read
10 views
0 comments


Community Services buckle under NDIS Price Guide pressure
Close to one hundred Canberrans with disabilities have had their lives disrupted after the Capital Regional Community Services (CRCS) disco

Jonathan Shar
Sep 3, 20203 min read
14 views
0 comments


Commonwealth update on NDIS participants and COVID-19
Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Stuart Robert, today announced the Commonwealth will commence providing data on inf

Jonathan Shar
Aug 20, 20202 min read
7 views
0 comments


Disability inquiry to hear COVID-19 impact
The impact of coronavirus on people with a disability, as well as the federal government’s pandemic response, will be examined across a four

Jonathan Shar
Aug 18, 20201 min read
19 views
0 comments


Disability inquiry on COVID-19 impact
People with disability, their families and advocates are expected to testify before a royal commission about their experiences during the c

Jonathan Shar
Aug 17, 20202 min read
13 views
0 comments


NDIS to Cover PPE Masks for NSW participants
An important announcement means NDIS participants and staff in NSW will no longer be out of pocket for masks as part of their Personal Prot

Jonathan Shar
Aug 14, 20202 min read
13 views
0 comments


Disability advocates 'cautious and concerned' as coronavirus spreads into Victoria's care sector
Advocates are calling for rapid government action to protect Victorians living with disability as the number of coronavirus infections lin

Jonathan Shar
Aug 13, 20203 min read
18 views
0 comments


New report uncovers COVID-19 mental health toll on NFP sector
The financial pressures placed on charities and not for profits during the COVID-19 pandemic are beginning to have an impact on the mental

Jonathan Shar
Aug 11, 20203 min read
16 views
0 comments
bottom of page