News
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The New NDIS Bill — Getting Across the Detail
This Friday (12th April 2024) DSC are hosting a free 90 minute webinar on the new NDIS bill. The webinar, which includes a Q&A session is aimed at anyone and everyone whose life is impacted by the NDIS — probably, you. The webinar will cover: To register, click here to visit the DSC website. Disability…
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Opening the Door — Sharing Homes
The next in the Opening the Door lunchtime conversations has been announced. This is a free online event for people with disability, their families, & supporters. Please share details with others who may like to attend. This conversation about Sharing Homes and will cover homeshare arrangements, tenancy law and other aspects of sharing homes. For…
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Save the Date — Try Before You Ride
Public Transport Victoria (PT) has announced a Try Before You Ride event on Thursday 9 May 2024 (10.30am – 2.00m) at Southern Cross Station. Try Before You Ride events help people of all abilities feel more confident when using the public transport system. Public Transport Victoria For more information, visit the PT website:https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/more/travelling-on-the-network/accessibility/try-before-you-ride/ Disability Justice…
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Disability Royal Commission recommendations: What do they mean for you?
The Disability Royal Commission made over 200 recommendations covering all aspects of everyday life — but what could these mean for you? Your Story Disability Legal Support is hosting a free online event on Tuesday March 26 at 11.30am (AEDT) — including Auslan interpreters and live captions — to investigate what we might see if…
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Opening the Door — Individualised Living Options
Opening the Door invites you to join them for the next in their series of lunchtime conversations on “Individualised Living Options”. For more information about the event and to register click visit:https://events.humanitix.com/individualised-living-options-lunchtime-conversation-007 Disability Justice Australia hopes our members find this information useful.
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addc petition for greater disability equity targets
Did you know that globally one in six people has a disability? That is 700 million people in the Asia-Pacific region alone. The Australian Disability+Development Consortium (addc) is calling for supporters to sign a petition to adopt higher targets in the Disability Equity and Rights Strategy currently being developed by the Australian Government. Disability Justice…
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Opening the Door — Private Home Rental
‘Opening the Door’ is running a free (lunchtime) online event aimed at helping people with a disability find a new rental home in the mainstream private rental market on Thursday 7th March (12.30pm – 2.15 pm AEDT). Attendance is open to disabled people and their families and supporters, For full information on the event and…
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2023 December Broadcaster Published
The December 2023 edition of the DJA newsletter “The Broadcaster” has been published and circulated to members. In this issue, there is: The December 2023 issue can be downloaded either as a pdf or in Microsoft Word format.
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Board Update
At the 2022-23 AGM held on the 20 November 2023 the 8 member Board was finalised by members in alphabetical order as follows: This is an outstanding result because it reflects our national membership expansion into 4 states in Australia. At the next Board Meeting on the 15 December, 2023 the election of office Bearers…