It’s past time to dismantle the (often invisible) barriers that keep people with disabilities less healthy, employed and educated than other groups worldwide.
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Meet the real Daniel Blakes.
Students with disability are experiencing a range of harms in schools, and teachers are struggling to support students with increasingly complex needs.
The NDIS provides an opportunity to address the shortfalls of the former institutionalised service system, some of which uniquely impact Indigenous Australians.
Schools are deliberately disregarding disability standards through rejecting school places, being reluctant to make teaching adjustments and having poor attitudes towards disability.
Thousands of young people with disability who end up in nursing homes lead lives of isolation and boredom. Better and smarter housing finance and support options are at last being developed.
In 2012, nearly one-third of voters with a disability had trouble voting. A 2002 law was supposed to fix this problem. New technology may have the answer at last.
The most shocking moments of the true crime documentary Making a Murderer depict two police officers gently coaxing a softly spoken teenager to recount his role in a vicious crime. Warning: spoilers ahead.
A recent survey of paediatricians found they often lacked enough information to accurately diagnose an Autism Spectrum Disorder in children.
Parents need to be pushier and demand private school places for their children.
Children with disabilities are frequently discriminated against in Australian schools, with parents asked to send their child to another school or fork out extra money.
By tying funding to disability categories, schools and parents are being put under pressure to seek a diagnosis for their child in order to get funding support.
Language can be used harmfully to construct categories of others. The words we use in describing children with disabilities need to be examined, challenged - and changed.
The Senate inquiry into violence against people with disability shows the root cause of violence, neglect and abuse of people with disability begins with the de-valuing of their lives.
Accountability for the violence and abuse that people with disability experience begins with recording the offences. In fact, we have long ignored crimes against vulnerable members of our community.
The reluctance by many to accept or even debate the intersection between old age and disability highlights how society struggles to construct differences in ability.
Some data shows the gap in employment rates between disabled and non-disabled working-age people has gone down. But other data says the opposite. Here’s why.
When buildings began to rise from the ruins and the rubble, the planners missed an opportunity to create a better society.
More than 7,000 young Australians with disabilities are forced to live in nursing homes because they’re unable to find suitable accommodation that meets their needs. But this may be about to change.
A group of 17 million voters is being ignored by the main parties. Why might that be?
Top contributors
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Research Fellow Dignity Project, Griffith University
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Disability and Community Inclusion, Flinders University
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Professor, Director, Griffith Inclusive Futures, Griffith University, Griffith University
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ARC Research Fellow in Indigenous Health, Disability and Community Development, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Professor of Social Inclusion - UTS Business School - Centres for Business and Social innovation, and Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate professor, Chair in Intellectual Disability Behaviour Support, UNSW Sydney
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Dr. Frank Hayden Endowed Chair in Sport and Social Impact, Western University
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Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Education, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Centre for Tourism Research, Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra
