Posts tagged Disability
What Do You Do? Hope in Disability Policy Advocacy
What Do You Do? Hope in Disability Policy Advocacy

As we approach the end of 2024, it seems an appropriate time to reflect on both the progress that has been made in disability equality, but also the things that we all do to protect ourselves and sustain our collective and individual advocacy efforts. In the Spring 2024 Edition of the Canberra Disability Review , Editor Rob Donnelly invited readers to do this, by responding to the question: What do you do that helps you to keep going, and maintain some measure of hope, when progress towards a fairer and more inclusive Australia is under heavy fire?  

Advocacy for Inclusion’s Head of Policy, Craig Wallace, and the Disability Leadership Institute’s CEO and Founder, Christina Ryan, shared their perspectives.  

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Advocacy, Lived experience, Policy and governancePower to PersuadeDisability, Policy advocacy, Lived/consumer experience
Home Choice: An Interview with Hannah Orban, Co-Author of The Grattan Institute Report “Better, Safer, More Sustainable. How to reform NDIS housing and support.”
Home Choice: An Interview with Hannah Orban, Co-Author of The Grattan Institute Report “Better, Safer, More Sustainable. How to reform NDIS housing and support.”

In the Spring 2024 Edition of the Canberra Disability Review, Editor Rob Donnelly sat down with Hannah Orban to discuss the Grattan Institute’s (@GrattanInst) recent report “Better, Safer, More Sustainable. How To Reform NDIS Housing and support”. Today’s blog piece shares key parts of their interview, highlighting key issues with the current NDIS housing system and opportunities for improvement. You can read the original interview here.

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Advocacy, Policy and governance, Innovation, Service DeliveryPower to PersuadeDisability housing policy, Disability
The Australian Government response to the Disability Royal Commission: Implementing strategies for improvement for people with disability within Australia’s health care system
The Australian Government response to the Disability Royal Commission: Implementing strategies for improvement for people with disability within Australia’s health care system

Rae West details the Disability Royal Commission’s findings and recommendations on improving healthcare for people with disability, and the Australian Government’s response - as well as the disability community’s frustration at how few recommendations were accepted in full.

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Policy and governancePower to PersuadeDisability Royal Commission, Disability, healthcare
Gender has always been 'shut out' from NDIS policy development
Gender has always been 'shut out' from NDIS policy development

The much-anticipated NDIS review released in late 2023 failed to explicitly consider gender equality or recommend a gender strategy. In today’s post, UNSW PhD candidate Molly Saunders gives a history of gender and the NDIS, and discusses her doctoral research on whether the NDIS supports women with disability to live a life of their own choosing.

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Womens Policy Action TankPower to PersuadeDisability, NDIS, Gender Inequity
A safe home for people with disability: the contrasting and complementary roles of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and Community Visitor schemes
A safe home for people with disability: the contrasting and complementary roles of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and Community Visitor schemes

In today’s post, moderator Dr Rae West @raelene_west discusses the balance between the roles of the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Commission and Community Visitor schemes in deterring and preventing harm to people with disability utilising funded support services in accommodation settings and homes.

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Advocacy, Policy and governance, Service DeliveryPower to PersuadeDisability, NDIS
Stretching ourselves beyond reason to deliver government savings: a response to the Albanese’s first budget – part 3 
Stretching ourselves beyond reason to deliver government savings: a response to the Albanese’s first budget – part 3 

In the wake of the budget, the Antipoverty Centre asked people on Centrelink payments – the real social policy experts – for their reactions. A contributor shared how he and other carers performing unpaid labour save the government money, and another describes the devastating impact of the failure to raise the JobSeeker rate on welfare recipients.

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Advocacy, Lived experiencePower to Persuadewelfare reform, Budget 2022, Lived/consumer experience, Disability, NDIS, Poverty
Break the Poverty Machine: the voices of Australia’s poor (part 2)
Break the Poverty Machine: the voices of Australia’s poor (part 2)

Aeryn Brown is a JobSeeker recipient from Tasmania. They authored the below open letter to social security minister Amanda Rishworth as part of the Break the Poverty Machine week of action, which will be held to mark the International Day to Eradicate Poverty on 17 October – one week ahead of the federal budget. People on low incomes and supporters can get more information and register to participate in the #BTPM protest (either online or in person in Adelaide) here: btpm2022.eventbrite.com.au

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Advocacy, Lived experience, Policy and governancePower to PersuadePoverty, welfare reform, Disadvantage, Disability
Break the Poverty Machine: the voices of Australia’s poor (part 1)
Break the Poverty Machine: the voices of Australia’s poor (part 1)

Marina is one of nearly 900 000 Australians who are either unemployed or underemployed and who receive either Jobseeker Payment or Youth Allowance. This open letter is to Amanda Rishworth, Minister for Social Services in preparation for an upcoming “raise the rate” protest hosted by the Anti-Poverty Centre and the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

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Advocacy, Lived experiencePower to Persuadewelfare-to-work, welfare conditionality, Wealth inequality, Poverty, NDIS, Disability, Disadvantage, employment, unemployment
The disability educator and the healthcare worker: case studies in older women and the toxic workplace
The disability educator and the healthcare worker: case studies in older women and the toxic workplace

Today’s blog post from Myfan Jordan (@myfan_jordan) of Grassroots Research Studio follows last week’s article describing workplace experiences for women over 40 during the pandemic: Pandemic or endemic: older women and the toxic workplace. Today, we hear the experiences of a disability educator and a healthcare worker during the pandemic. In their own words, they tell us of the psychological health and safety risks they experienced working at the frontline.

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Lived experience, Policy and governancePower to Persuadegender, Disability, education, healthcare, COVID-19