To help people give their information to the Disability Royal Commission* a submission form was designed. DANA explained to the Commissioners that there were problems with their submission form: the questions were too long and complicated not all questions aligned with best trauma-informed practice the ordering of the questions could be improved the need for […]
Source: DANA
The Australian Government promised last year to develop and legislate an NDIS Participant Service Guarantee to improve participant experiences with the NDIS. To do this, the Government commissioned a review of the NDIS legislation – Mr David Tune was appointed as the independent reviewer – it became known as the ‘Tune Review’. The review looked […]
Source: DANA
The Australian Government promised last year to develop and legislate an NDIS Participant Service Guarantee to improve participant experiences with the National Disability Insurance Scheme. To do this, the Government commissioned a review of the NDIS legislation – Mr David Tune was appointed as the independent reviewer – it became known as the ‘Tune Review’. […]
Source: Deafness Forum of Australia
“The greatest single disaster in Australia is to grow old. There is no place at the fireside for them. Old age is unhappy for all except the most fortunate, but when it is accompanied by loneliness and disappearance of all meaning from life it is doubly so.” Donald Horne, The Lucky Country (1964) Read a […]
Source: Deafness Forum of Australia
The Disability Royal Commission has published a calendar for the first half of 2020. It includes community engagement activities, engagement with First Nations people, organisations and communities and Public Hearings. This calendar does not necessarily include all activities and engagements that the Royal Commission will undertake and is subject to change – check back over […]
Source: DANA
The climate crisis is a health crisis. Air pollution kills an estimated 7 million people every year, while climate change causes more extreme weather events, exacerbates malnutrition and fuels the spread of infectious diseases. The same emissions that cause global warming are responsible for more than one-quarter of deaths from heart attack, stroke, lung cancer […]
Source: Deafness Forum of Australia
