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If This Short FIlm Doesn't Inspire You To Go Do Your Dream Ride, IDEK

Sophie Morgan is a rider, disability advocate, and TV presenter who's been paralyzed since she was 18. She rode across the US in 2023, and this is her story.

RideApart

Tiered NDIS provider registration and a say on supports. Are we finally listening to people with disability?

When the review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was handed down at the end of last year, one of the more controversial recommendations was to make provider registration mandatory.

The Conversation

Proposed NDIS changes to fall under public eye

Australians are invited to have their say on what supports should and shouldn't be funded through the government's disability support scheme.

AAP

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New parking spaces for Canberra Hospital will be ready this month

Govt says it's investigating more options to ease parking woes.

The Canberra Times

Missy Elliott tours as a headliner − and it’s about time

Missy Elliott’s first-ever headline tour, which stops in Philadelphia on Aug. 5, 2024, comes nearly three decades after she released her debut album, “Supa Dupa Fly,” in 1997.

The Conversation

Headteacher paid damages in disability discrimination case against Ofsted

Exclusive: Schools watchdog refused Kelly Vaughan’s request to defer inspection after MS symptoms relapse

The Guardian - UK

The federal government has only ‘noted’ a call to end special schools. What does this mean for students with disability?

We have just received the long-awaited response from the Australian government to the disability royal commission’s final report.

The Conversation

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New Closing the Gap data shows more First Nations Australians are in prison. Why?

In 2008, Australia agreed to six targets to “close the gap” – to reduce the disparities between Indigenous people and the rest of the population in health, education and employment.

The Conversation

Disability reform chance squandered, say advocates

Claims it is delaying reforms recommended by the disability royal commission have been rejected by the federal government, despite concern from advocates.

AAP

Period poverty in Australia is forcing people to make their own menstrual products

Report finds period poverty is spread across income brackets but affects more Indigenous people and people with disability

The Guardian - AU

Special education to stay despite royal commission call

While a royal commission urged for special schools to be phased out for students with disabilities, states and territories say the arrangements will stay.

AAP

Long-awaited Disability Royal Commission response leaves community cold

Federal Government adopts 13 of commission's 222 recommendations

Newcastle Herald

‘Lacklustre’ and ‘disappointing’ – experts react to the government’s disability royal commission response

Today the federal government released its response to 222 recommendations made in the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability final report.

The Conversation

Labor’s disability royal commission response ‘deeply disappointing’, advocates say

Government announces $371m package but disability representatives said it failed to respond to the scale of exploitation

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Melbourne legionnaires’ disease outbreak grows – as it happened

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AAP

'Kick in the guts': shock at disability report response

Almost a year after the Disability Royal Commission delivered its damning report, the government has released its response to a mixed reaction.

The Canberra Times

Man accused of raping, filming sleeping woman with intellectual disability

Police found 61 videos depicting 'various sexual acts' on phone.

The Guardian - AU

Concerns NDIS changes will create robodebt 2.0 are ‘complete rubbish’, Bill Shorten says

Experts have warned new rules have ‘flavour and smell’ of the unlawful program but NDIS minister says comparison is ‘without basis’

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Newcastle Herald

New housing design offers more choice for people with disabilities

'This model will take away a lot of saying no to people.'

The Conversation

Disney’s new disability access policy risks excluding some disabled visitors

This past June, Charisma Mangahas — a young woman with Guillain-Barre Syndrome — shared on TikTok that she had been denied disability access service at Disneyland in California. She is one of many disabled individuals who say they are being denied access to this service after Disney parks revised their…

Salon

Cops keep killing Black disabled people

"Black disabled people are particularly seen as problematic in the eyes of the state and a threat," expert says

The Independent UK

Tammy Duckworth eviscerates Trump for painful comments about disabled Americans

‘It’s hard to describe the pain millions of Americans with disabilities are feeling in response to Donald Trump’s newly-reported comments,’ Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth said

Space

How spaceflight’s 'parastronaut program' could improve health-care practices here on Earth

ESA reserve astronaut John McFall's story inspired a study suggesting that the space community's inclusion efforts should be used in other fields, especially medicine.

Newslaundry

‘Don’t blame quota’: Disability activist on Puja Khedkar case, inclusivity

After the spate of allegations against IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, last week the UPSC said she had misused the disability quota and filed a case against her. But this changed the course of the conversation, with several bureaucrats raising questions on the need for the quota.

The Guardian - UK

‘People always ask – can she have sex?’: the stars of TV’s racy, hilarious new disability comedy

We Might Regret This is one of TV’s most frank depictions of caring for a wheelchair user – and one of its funniest. Its creators talk steamy scenes, stereotypes – and getting drenched in urine

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