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Australia: PWDA Says Centre Co-design, Choice And Control To Get Registration Right
Monday, 16 September 2024, 7:18 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
PWDA President Marayke Jonkers is calling for genuine co-design with people with disability so any changes to registration are done right. More >>
Australia: PWDA "Devastated" At The Passage Of The NDIS Amendment Bill
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 12:03 am | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
PWDA is calling on policymakers to commit to co-developing future reforms through a process where people with disability and their representative organisations are equitable partners. More >>
PWDA: NSW Budget Of Must Haves Should Have Had People With Disability At Its Heart
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 8:25 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
18 June People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has welcomed the NSW Government’s investment in housing and cost-of-living relief but is disappointed by the lack of funding for people with disabilities in today’s NSW Budget. The national cross-disability ... More >>
Australia: Co-design Must Be Genuine, Our Lives Depend On It: PWDA Responds To The NDIS Reform Bill
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 5:18 am | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Major reforms to the National Disability Insurance (NDIS) have been introduced to parliament today by Minister for the NDIS Bill Shorten. People with Disability Australia (PWDA) have responded with a call for genuine co-design to refine the legislation ... More >>
Australia: Disability Standards Reform A Step In The Right Direction, Further Action Needed
Thursday, 21 March 2024, 5:53 am | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) is calling for additional measures to ensure Australia’s transport system is accessible and inclusive of people with disability. The call comes in response to the announcement from the Federal Government of reforms ... More >>
People With Disability Must Be Equal Partners In Reform: PWDA Responds To The Federal Government’s Progress Update
Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 7:01 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) is calling for people with disability to be recognised as equal partners in determining reforms flowing from the Disability Royal Commission and NDIS Review. The call comes in the wake of today’s release ... More >>
PWDA Announce Formal Response To The Disability Royal Commission Final Report
Monday, 26 February 2024, 7:17 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) is a national Disability Representative Organisation led by, and for, people with disability. The organisation has released a response today that reflects the most up-to-date and comprehensive views of PWDA ... More >>
PWDA Responds To The NDIS Review: More Supports For People With Disability Welcome
Thursday, 7 December 2023, 9:28 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) welcomes additional funding and steps to address gaps in support for people with disability outlined in today’s Independent NDIS Review report. “This report acknowledges what disabled people have known and ... More >>
Claiming our rights this IDPWD
Sunday, 3 December 2023, 2:28 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
On this International Day of People with Disability (IDPWD), People with Disability Australia (PWDA), reflects on another year of advocating for the rights of all people with disability to live in a future that is fully inclusive where the human rights ... More >>
PWDA Responds To NDIS Data Breach
Thursday, 3 August 2023, 9:59 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
PWDA urges people with disability to remain vigilant to suspicious activity in the wake of the HWL Ebsworth data breach, which impacted National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants, prospective participants, their families and supports ... More >>
Days Are Numbered For Restrictive Practices
Tuesday, 25 July 2023, 9:26 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
PWDA welcomes the release of the Disability Royal Commission’s Research Report's recommendation to eliminate restrictive practices. As a disability representative organisation of and for people with disability, we strongly believe that restrictive ... More >>
People With Disability Australia At 2023 Sydney World Pride!
Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 7:45 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) join Sydney’s World Pride 2023 celebrations which launch this Friday 17 February. This is the first time World Pride has been held in the Southern Hemisphere and the first time the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi ... More >>
A Thoughtful Budget With More To Do
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 5:29 am | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
25 October People with Disability Australia (PWDA) welcomes tonight's budget as thoughtful overall - recognising the attention to NDIS and other targeted reforms, including education and skills measures, housing and women’s safety. PWDA ... More >>
PWDA Welcomes Announcement Of NDIS Review
Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 7:07 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) welcomes the announcement of the Independent Review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) today. The Review's broad Terms of Reference give the disability community the chance to raise issues that ... More >>
Housing Action Long Overdue For People With Disability
Friday, 26 August 2022, 8:17 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Next week, the Disability Royal Commission will focus on people with disability who have experienced homelessness, including living in boarding houses and other forms of insecure or inadequate housing. Public hearing 26 will take place in Parramatta, ... More >>
PWDA Launches New Website To Mark 40 Years Of Community Service
Tuesday, 2 August 2022, 7:10 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
PWDA has launched a new website to help improve how our members, clients and supporters can access our information and engage with our work, activities and events. Launched as part of our 40th anniversary commemorations, the new website reflects current ... More >>
Peak Disability Org Seeks Federal Election Commitments Around Safety, Security And Support For People With Disability
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 7:16 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Disability advocates want the next federal government to deliver people with disability better protection from COVID, better jobs and financial security, better housing and better support through the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The Federal ... More >>
Peak Disability Org Slams 2022 Federal Budget For ‘Short-Changing’ People With Disability
Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 6:59 am | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Australia’s peak disability rights and advocacy organisation has criticised the Federal Government for not providing better support for people with disability in the 2022 Budget. People With Disability Australia (PWDA) says the Federal Government ... More >>
Omicron Staffing Crunch Putting Lives Of People With Disability At Risk
Thursday, 13 January 2022, 7:23 am | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Disability advocates say the lives and health of people with disability are at risk because of the severe strain that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is putting on the disability support sector. People With Disability Australia President Samantha Connor: ... More >>
‘People Will Die;’ People With Disability Lead Push For Free Rapid COVID Tests
Tuesday, 4 January 2022, 5:30 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Peak advocacy organisation People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has called for the nation’s governments to deliver free rapid antigen testing, increased resourcing and N95 masks for people with disability, their families and workforce. PWDA, which ... More >>