News & Views Questions remain on disability despite shadow minister’s appearance on Q+A Monday’s episode of Q+A neglected a major issue that raises questions on the political and media value placed on disability.
News & Views A male escort gave me my first sexual encounter at 43, and gave me the confidence to pursue love At 43 years old, Melanie Hawkes had her first sexual encounter with a male escort. It gave her the confidence to pursue love.
News & Views Loneliness and social isolation: How to make connection accessible for women with disabilities Sophie Cusworth, CEO of Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA), sees loneliness as a huge issue within the disability community.
News & Views Hannah Diviney calls for better disability representation and for the next NDIS Minister to undergo empathy training Hannah Diviney has addressed the National Press Club to call for better disability representation and for the next Minister for the NDIS to undergo empathy training.
Employers People with disability are twice as likely to experience discrimination and harassment at work: Report People with disabilities are twice as likely to experience discrimination and harassment at work, according to new research.
News & Views How and why did sex work get approved for NDIS funding? Sex work funded by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) could be ruled out by proposed legislation from the Albanese government.
News & Views Is disability a personal issue, or a failure of our built environment? We need more than just the medical model if we are to find practical solutions to the challenges faced by people with disabilities.
Leadership How we can use the power of visibility to stamp out disability stereotypes When creating a supportive environment for people with disabilities to thrive, advocate Lisa Cox says the answer is in “representation”.
News & Views Stop pitying the person in the wheelchair: for morality’s, society’s, and medicine’s sake The medical model still views disability as a “problem” that needs to be fixed. It is still “wrong”. It still requires intervention.
News & Views Why dyslexia can be powerful in driving innovation in the workplace Although dyslexia is often perceived as a disability, it actually bestows incredible superpowers, as I discovered later in life, writes Charlotte Blair.
News & Views UK’s Labour Party has proposed a Race Equality Act. What would it do? UK’s Labour Party has drafted a Race Equality Act that would extend full equal pay rights to ethnic minority workers and people with disabilities.
News & Views There is overwhelming gender bias in the NDIS – and the review doesn’t address it Women are under-represented as NDIS participants and over-represented as carers. But the NDIS review did not address it.
