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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 >>
Disability Advocates: No Travel To Low-Vax Regions; More Access To 3rd Jabs To Protect People With Disability From COVID
Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 7:57 am | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Disability Advocates Call For No Travel To Low-Vax Regions And More Access To Third Jabs To Protect People With Disability From COVID With COVID-related travel restrictions to regional NSW set to ease next week, disability advocates are calling for restrictions ... More >>
With COVID Set To Run Free In NSW, Many People With Disability Face A Future Of Fear
Monday, 11 October 2021, 7:55 am | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Disability advocates hold grave concerns that sluggish efforts to vaccinate people with disability in NSW will mean many disabled people now face sickness and death as the state starts to open up this week from COVID lockdown. National peak disability ... More >>
Advocates Fear People With Disability Set For Lockdown Limbo
Monday, 13 September 2021, 12:51 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Disability advocates are concerned that people with disability are set to languish in lockdown when the states and territories open up again unless the Federal Government amps up COVID vaccination programs for clinically vulnerable people. As locked-down ... More >>
Disability Advocates Say New COVID-19 Vaccine Data Show People With Disability Are Being Left Behind
Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 8:04 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Disability advocates have increased pressure on the Federal Government to speed up and broaden the COVID-19 vaccine rollout for people with disability after the release of vaccination data which shows the rollout for people with disability is ... More >>
Advocate Calls For People With Disability To Have Vaccine Choice
Thursday, 22 July 2021, 8:22 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
Advocacy organisation People with Disability Australia has called for people with disability and their treating practitioners to be able to assess their risk of getting COVID-19 and choose what vaccine to get after residents and workers at a disability ... More >>
People With Disability Cannot Just ‘Live With COVID’
Saturday, 10 July 2021, 5:30 am | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
People with disability and their families are in the midst of the crisis of their lives, especially in New South Wales. On one hand, there is a pandemic raging with all the ferocity of an out of control forest fire. On the other, there is a fierce ... More >>
NSW Government Needs To Get Serious About Essential Services For People With Disability
Tuesday, 22 June 2021, 4:26 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) and the Physical Disability Council of New South Wales (PDCN) have urged the NSW Government to get serious about ensuring people with disability can access essential services like transport and housing. PWDA Chief ... More >>
New Survey Points To Need To Speed Up Vaccine Rollout
Tuesday, 8 June 2021, 1:43 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
PWDA chief executive officer Sebastian Zagarella has acknowledged that while people with disability were left out of the Australian Government’s initial response to the COVID pandemic a new survey from the organisation points to a way ... More >>
COVID-19 Preparation Must Include People With Disability
Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 5:41 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
People with disability must be included in all plans to manage the current COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. “People with disability need to be included at every stage of this public health crisis, so that we can manage our risk of catching the virus, ... More >>
Awards for Disability Leadership Finalists announced
Monday, 18 November 2019, 5:27 pm | People with Disability Australia - PWDA
An outstanding field of 19 Finalists across 7 categories is announced today in the leadup to the National Awards for Disability Leadership, to be held via Global Live Webcast on 3 December 2019, International Day for People with Disabilities. Finalists ... More >>
