Disability
Increasing special exam privileges for students with mental illness
Rising exam pressures has led to more students seeking special exam privileges intended to help the mentally and physically disabled.......
Advocates call for national legal approach to intellectual disability
Disability advocacy groups are calling for recent South Australian laws that improve the rights of the intellectually disabled in court......
Network launched to help young Australian women living with a disability
There are many young women in Australia living with a disability, with their own unique issues. Recognising the need for......
Schools in disability funding crisis
Children with disabilities across the nation are missing out on funding after the Abbott Government broke its election promise to......
McClure report proposes welfare shakeup
Today, Minister for Social Services Scott Morrison released the McClure report, a review which proposes a dramatic overhaul of the......
Disability advocates call for overhaul of federal funding
The plight of the young disabled is under close examination right now with two senate inquiries into young people in......
NDIS recipients finally take the spotlight
We’ve heard about the National Disability Insurance Scheme from academics and government ministers, but what about the recipients themselves? Sixteen......
Disability performers need to ‘infiltrate’ arts world
Caroline Bowditch is a wheelchair user, performance artist and choreographer who has been dancing for 25 years. As a Dance......
The Wire Summer: Disability issues
With more and more stories emerging of people with disabilities being locked up in jail because their mental health meant......
New Challenges for young people on Disability Pension
The government plans to review people under 35 who are on a disability pension to find out whether they are......