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Featured CEO: Danielle Ballantine on providing better health care to people living with a disability

Menchie Khairuddin October 18, 2022

Around 4.4 million people in Australia are living with a disability. The likelihood of that number increasing as an individual grows older. Your Side Australia

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Health, Governance, Disability, Latest News

Incentives to bolster support for children with disabilities in preschools

Menchie Khairuddin October 7, 2022

Early childhood teachers (ECTs) in NSW working with children with disability or additional needs are encouraged to apply for up to $20,000 of financial support

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Disability, News, Health

Social Futures creates innovative methods for introducing children to the NDIS

Menchie Khairuddin August 25, 2022

Children with a disability who need support can join the National Insurance Disability Scheme (NDIS) upon turning 7, and Social Futures, which delivers the NDIS

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Business, Disability

Tapping people with disability to fill in jobs for Central Coast businesses

Lourdes Antenor May 26, 2022

The not-for-profit organisation Social Futures can support Central Coast employers fill job vacancies by showing them how to access a skilled but untapped workforce –

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Health, Disability, Latest News

Complaints, stares and threats: People with high-risk disabilities given ‘no leeway’ in public

Lourdes Antenor May 24, 2022

People with high-risk disabilities are being ‘chased out of suburbs” by ignorant people, a home care provider says. From verbal attacks on the streets to

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Disability, Community Services

Australian beaches are now more inclusive and accessible to people with disabilities

Lourdes Antenor May 17, 2022

Accessible Beaches Australia has launched a new beach access directory, developed in partnership with Deloitte. The new site is the first of its kind in

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Latest Appointments, Disability

Able Australia announces Lynette McKeown as new Chief Executive Officer

Lourdes Antenor April 28, 2022

Disability service provider Able Australia is pleased to announce that Lynette McKeown has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Officer. McKeown brings more than

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Aged Care, Opinion, Health, Disability

Opinion: Age discrimination and disability, silence is deafening

David Margan April 28, 2022

Discrimination has been a hot topic for some time now and rightly so, but most Australians would be surprised to know that Australian governments have

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Health, Governance, Funding, Disability, Child Protection

The Shepherd Centre welcomes $6.5 million in funding to improve care for children with hearing loss

Lourdes Antenor April 19, 2022

NDIS provider and charity, The Shepherd Centre has welcomed an announcement from Federal Labor Leader Anthony Albanese pledging $6.5 million in funding to provide better

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Disability, Youth

Thebarton Senior College students build prosthetic hands for amputee victims in the developing world

Lourdes Antenor April 5, 2022

The students at Thebarton Senior College in Torrensville – many of whom are new arrivals to Australia and come from non-English speaking backgrounds – will shift their

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