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Australians for Mental Health welcomes Labor's major funding pledge for mental health
Australians for Mental Health has expressed its support for a major $1 billion funding commitment from the Australian Labor Party for...

Jonathan Shar
Apr 81 min read


PWDA Launches Election Platform to Secure Progress for People with Disability
People with Disability Australia (PWDA), the national cross-disability peak body and representative organisation, has today launched its...

Jonathan Shar
Apr 33 min read


NEW SURVEY: AUTISM DIAGNOSIS DELAYS SKYROCKET, PEAK BODY CALLS FOR ACTION
A new national survey has revealed systemic failures in the diagnosis of autistic children with wait times skyrocketing in recent years....

Jonathan Shar
Apr 35 min read
Stella Young: Pirates and Posters
Originally Published in the Disability Busters Newsletter September 2024 Hi everyone! So I’m sure you all know about the late advocate...

Melissa Marsden
Apr 22 min read


New research helps track children's muscle growth and improve Cerebral Palsy assessments
While we’ve long measured children’s height and weight, new growth curves assist with the measurement and assessment of childhood muscle...

Jonathan Shar
Apr 12 min read


Riverlink Joins SydWest Securing the Future of Disability Support in Western Sydney
Two of Sydney’s most trusted community organisations, Riverlink Disability Services and SydWest Multicultural Services, are coming...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 312 min read


Tickets released for 2025 Santos Wheelchair Rugby World Challenge
Tickets have gone live for the highly anticipated 2025 Santos Wheelchair Rugby World Challenge coming to Adelaide this May. The new World...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 282 min read


Disability Sector Delivers the Minimum List of Actions Millions of Aussies Must See Ahead of the Federal Election - Is NDIS Really the Hot Potatoe Politicians Fear?
“With an election so close and what appears looking in, to be a disastrous and inexplicable lack of action to fix the workings of NDIS,...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 287 min read


Budget Reply: People with disability missing in action, cuts to NDIS workforce on the table
People with disability were barely acknowledged in the Federal Budget – and in tonight’s Opposition Budget Reply, we weren’t mentioned at...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 282 min read


Vision Australia unveils 2025 Federal election priorities
Leading blindness and low vision service and advocacy organisation Vision Australia is calling 1on the next federal government to take...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 272 min read


People with disability invisible in key budget measures but funding for disability supports a start
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) welcomes the announcement of $364.5 million in tonight budget funding for foundational supports...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 264 min read
Accessing Transport: Trials and Tribulations
Originally Published in the Disability Busters Newsletter 2024 Roughly 17% of people with disabilities in Victoria are unable to catch...

Melissa Marsden
Mar 263 min read


Signs of emotion: Empowering deaf people in Bangladesh with mental wellbeing sign language
A first ever sign bank to express mental health-related words has been launched to support deaf people in Bangladesh, developed by Monash...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 253 min read


"We will be watching" - People with Disability Australia warns against cuts to the NDIS
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) is putting politicians on notice: Australians with disability will not stand by while our...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 242 min read


Children's book about the social model of disability from award-winning creators of Come Over to My House
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing is thrilled to announce it will publish the second picture book from award-winning creators Eliza...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 242 min read


ACOSS demands removal of whole Targeted Compliance Framework after damning Government revelations
ACOSS is demanding the urgent removal of the whole Targeted Compliance Framework due to shocking revelations of massive Government...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 212 min read


Australians for Mental Health welcomes free virtual counselling initiative
Australians for Mental Health has welcomed the Albanese Government’s announcement to make online and over-the-phone counselling free for...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 202 min read
ANJA CHRISTOFFERSEN TO BE HONOURED WITH QLD AWARD INAUSTRALIAN AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP
Women & Leadership Australia (WLA) today announces Anja Christoffersen, Disability Advocate and Social Entrepreneur; CEO of the Women...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 193 min read


Watering down protections no solution to workplace mental health crisis
Australians for Mental Health is expressing its dismay over a planned watering down of workers compensation rights, amid a rise in...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 182 min read


Labor delivering a stronger and fairer NDIS
The Albanese Labor Government’s significant reforms and investment have put the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) back on...

Jonathan Shar
Mar 182 min read
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