Have Your Say

WWDA regularly seeks feedback from our diverse community to improve our work and better understand the  issues that matter to you.

We invite everyone – women, girls and gender-diverse individuals with disabilities, their families, carers, friends, allies and professionals to share their insights through our surveys. 

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Opportunities

Have Your Say

Lived Experience Panel on Menopause Guidelines

Are you experiencing perimenopause or menopausal symptoms, or have you reached menopause within the last three years? Have your say on Australia’s new menopause and perimenopause guidelines!

Guideline developers at Monash University are seeking participants for a national Lived Experience Panel to help develop Australia’s new Perimenopause and Menopause Guidelines to guide care delivered by health professionals.

They are encouraging applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Training, support and payment are provided.

Applications close 30 September 2026.

Click here to apply to the Lived Experience Panel.

To contribute to the related survey, click here.

Submission

Select Committee on Women's Health

The Senate Select Committee on Women’s Health has launched an inquiry into women’s health and care experiences.

They want to hear lived experiences around several key women’s health issues, including: pregnancy and postpartum care, chronic pain, medical misogyny, treatment cost and accessibility, and the regulation of medical devices.

Submissions are open to everyone. You don’t have to use formal policy language. You can share your lived experience, concerns, and what decision-makers should know.

Submissions close 9 October 2026.

Click here to find out more and have your say.

Submission

NDIS Planning Consultations

The Government has opened a number of NDIS consultations and feedback surveys.

Competition

PWDA Creative Storytelling Competition

PWDA is inviting LGBTQIA+ people with disability to share their stories as part of their Community Attitudes project – a national awareness and education program focused on building inclusion in workplaces and communities.

They are looking for creative, real stories that reflect the diversity of our community and challenge stigma and discrimination.

You can enter if you:

  • Identify as LGBTQIA+ person with disability
  • Live in Australia
  • Are 18 years or older when the competition opens
  • Are entering as an individual (not on behalf of an organisation)

Competition is open from 1 September to 25 October 2026.

Click here to learn more about the competition.

Learning

Webinars and modules for LGBTQIA+ people with disability

PWDA have released a new online learning module ‘Rights, Self-Advocacy and Speaking Up’. It is designed to help LGBTQIA+ people with disability understand their rights, make informed choices, ask for support, and decide what to do if something does not feel fair, accessible or respectful. Click here to register.

Campaign

End Partner Income Testing

WWDA supports the End Partner Income Testing (PIT) campaign as part of broader, urgent reform to the Disability Support Pension.

Right now, programs, such as the Disability Support Pension, involve partner income assessments to determine whether people with disabilities “need” support payments. This can force women, girls and gender-diverse people to rely on their partner’s income or assets, even when that relationship is unsafe or unstable.

Disability support reform is essential to ensuring people can live safely, independently and with dignity.

Click here to find out more or share your story.