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The Disability Royal Commission has been running for over a year without offering full confidentiality to people with disability making submissions. We are being asked to tell our personal stories of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation, without a full guarantee that the perpetrators will never have access to the information we give. If we are not able to…
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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media platforms are now being used by people from all over the world. There are many positives about using social media including, staying in contact with friends, learning new things and keeping up to date with the latest news. How people interact with each other on social media can be a…
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We call upon the Attorney-General to introduce legislation into the Australian Parliament to protect the confidentiality of information given to The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
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On 28th August 2020, the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Hon Stuart Robert announced the “most substantial” reforms to the NDIS since its establishment. The package includes implementation of the Australian Government’s Response to the 2019 Tune Review and the new NDIS Participant Service Guarantee. One part of the reform will see…
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The Our Site report provides a comprehensive overview of how the Our Site website was developed with the input of over 100 women with disability across Australia. An Easy Read summary of the report is also available. Our Site was created by and for women with disability through a national two-year project led by WWDA.…
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Our Site was created by and for women with disability through a national two-year project led by WWDA. The project delivered on a vision that had been conceived by the WWDA community many years earlier, for an accessible website that provided information about the rights of women and girls with disability in four key areas: leadership and participation, decision-making…
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Our Site was created by and for women with disability through a national two-year project led by WWDA. The project delivered on a vision that had been conceived by the WWDA community many years earlier, for an accessible website that provided information about the rights of women and girls with disability in four key areas: leadership and participation, decision-making…
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A website by and for women and girls with disability
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Written by: Carolyn Frohmader, WWDA CEO, and Christina Ryan, CEO, Disability Leadership Institute, for and on behalf of Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) and Women With Disabilities Australian Capital Territory (WWDACT).
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In 2020 the Disability Royal Commission released an issues paper on group homes. The issues paper asked 10 questions based on some of the key issues and barriers experienced by people with disability living in Group Homes. You can download the issues paper from the Disability Royal Commission website here. WWDA have now submitted their response…