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Enhancing Equity in Cervical Screening
Professor Deborah Bateson and Associate Professor Mary-Ann O’Donovan at the University of Sydney are engaging with with people with disabilities and their supporters on behalf of the Department of Health and Aged Care to improve equity in breast screening. We’re interested to hear from women and people with a cervix with lived experience of disability…
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City of Ballarat Accessibility in Practice Forum – August 2025
The City of Ballarat is hosting an “Accessibility in Practise Forum” in August 2025. The forum covers a broad range of “disability inclusion” topics and is aimed at organisations, community groups, clubs or services based in, or servicing the City of Ballarat region (only). For more information and to register for this free event, click…
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Free Webinar — Simplifying Specialist Disability Accommodation
Paramount Disability Homes are a leading provider of Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) with a large portfolio of properties managed across Victoria. You can view the available properties here and there are many more projects in progress. Paramount Disability Homes in collaboration with Housing Hub is hosting a free webinar: Simplifying Specialist Disability Accommodation1 April 2025…
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Positive Powerful Parents — Melbourne Friday Friendship Groups (2025)
Positive Powerful Parents will again be running monthly Melbourne Friday Friendship Groups in 2025 from 12.00 pm to 2.00 pm at (Level 4) Ross House, 284 Flinders Lane Melbourne. This group is for parents who have intellectual disability to connect with other parents, have friendly chats, share information, learn about self advocacy, talk about issues & good outcomes…
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Paid Opportunity – Join AFDO’s Lived Experience Team!
The Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) is supporting ARTD Consultants in recruiting Lived Experience Team Members for a Disability Quality and Safeguarding Project. This paid, casual role is an opportunity to use your lived experience to help shape Government policies that improve support and safety for people with disability. Working from home: Applications close end of February…
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Help Improve Rail Crossing Safety for People with Disability!
The Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) is partnering with La Trobe University’s Centre for Technology Infusion to improve safety and accessibility at level crossings. Researchers wish to engage with people with a physical or sensory disability, to hear about their experiences. The research team has spoken with a number of people in person across…
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Enhanced voter access for people with disability
In a win for Systemic Advocacy the Disability Advisory Committee of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has achieved amendments to the voting process making it easier for people with a disability (and their carers) to vote. The amendments secured recognise being a person with a disability (or their carer) may mean that the person is…
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2024 December Broadcaster Published
The December 2024 edition of the DJA newsletter “The Broadcaster” has been published and circulated to members. In this issue there is: The December 2024 issue can be downloaded either as a pdf or in Microsoft Word format.
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DJA 2024 AGM — Guest speaker announced
Disability Justice Australia Inc (DJA) is thrilled to announce our Annual General Meeting (AGM) motivational speaker will be Paris 2024 Paralympic Games competitor Ahmed Kelly. Ahmed was born in Baghdad with significant disabilities in all four limbs. In 2008 Ahmed started training for swimming, and since then has been able to achieveseveral sporting goals —…