The Disability Royal Commission will bring forward the hidden stories of abuse in indigenous communities. “People are bringing up vulnerable experiences and what support is after that? They haven’t talked about, or funded appropriately, healing programs and support for before or after.” June Riemer from First Peoples Disability Network Australia (FPDN) said First Nations people […]
Source: DANA
It was an opportunity to speak to our issues when Deafness Forum chair David Brady met with Dr Fiona Martin, a Liberal Party politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Reid (Sydney) at the 2019 federal election. Before her election, Dr Martin was a clinician for over 15 years and an academic researcher. […]
Source: Deafness Forum of Australia
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the committee) has published its findings on its recent review of how Australia is meeting its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) The findings cover how Australia is doing with regard to the rights of persons with disabilities, and […]
Source: AFDO
International Day of Sign Languages is celebrated on 23 September with an objective of raising awareness of sign languages throughout the world. Among the Day’s objectives: Promote deaf people as unique in having both perspectives of disability and linguistic minority and that sign language and deaf culture strengthens multilingualism and are means of promoting, protecting […]
Source: Deafness Forum of Australia
The first official Sitting of the Disability Royal Commission opened on Monday 16 September 2019. Commission chair Ronald Sackville said how the Royal Commission will strongly reference the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. He acknowledged the hard work of advocates who had campaigned for years to make this royal Commission […]
Source: DANA
ABC Television has created a webpage where it will file all its news stories on this Royal Commission – https://www.abc.net.au/news/story-streams/disability-royal-commission/
Source: DANA
