Reviewing the NDIS
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
Aged Care Royal Commission
“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
Bushfire Disaster Media Release
On 15 January 2020, Inclusion Australia put out a Media Release about the bushfire crisis with People With Disability Australia (PWDA), Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) and IDEAS. You can read the full Media Release here or continue reading: People with disability must be part of bushfire plans and recovery The current bushfire crisis across Australia has highlighted […]
Source: Inclusion Australia
Disability Royal Commission calendar of events
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
Health in the climate debate
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
Communicating inclusively in emergencies
As the bushfire crisis unfolded in late 2019 and into 2020, the Centre for Inclusive Design in Sydney received questions and complaints about messages sent via broadcast, print and online mediums. In response, it created the following guide as a resource for people to communicate inclusively in times of emergency. It’s particularly important to […]
Source: Deafness Forum of Australia
