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Fri 17 February 2017Pilger helped ease seriously disabled men and women back into the community.
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Fri 17 February 2017Charity returns to Hobart to give children with disabilities the chance to sail a yacht and discover disability does not mean inability.
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Fri 17 February 2017
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Fri 17 February 2017The Hobart crypt is ready to receive a religious pioneer who, 151 years after his death, will have his life's wish to return to Tasmania finally fulfilled.
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Fri 17 February 2017The Western Australian education system is failing to meet the needs of some highly disabled children because of inflexibility and a lack of expertise, an experienced educator says.
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Fri 17 February 2017Pilger helped ease seriously disabled men and women back into the community.
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Fri 17 February 2017The Western Australian education system is failing to meet the needs of some highly disabled children because of inflexibility and a lack of expertise, says an experienced educator.
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Fri 17 February 2017People with disabilities, including Adelaide man Nick Schumi, say it is hard to land a job when you head to an interview only to find the building cannot accommodate your wheelchair.
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Thu 16 February 2017Full-time employment collapsed to its weakest point in 16 months in January after two months of gains were reversed, leaving Australia with 56,100 fewer full-time workers than in January 2015.
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Thu 16 February 2017Cate Blanchett has given her voice to play an online character who will give people information about the national disability insurance scheme.
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Thu 16 February 2017A man uses his robotic exoskeleton to walk onto the soccer pitch. A woman sees the world using her bionic eye. Sound like science fiction? No, these are all real stories.
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Thu 16 February 2017Thousands of Australian families rely on carers to help ease the burden of looking after a loved one with disabilities, but many of these families say a shortage of trained carers has left them struggling to cope, February 16, 2017.
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Thu 16 February 2017Lateline spent a day with Fiona Hough and her five-year-old son Charlie, who has autism, to see how they cope when the carer doesn't come.
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Thu 16 February 2017A man uses his robotic exoskeleton to walk onto the soccer pitch. A woman sees the world using her bionic eye. Sound like science fiction? No, these are all real stories.
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Thu 16 February 2017Larry Elphinstone handballing the ball over his brother Jamie on the court in Somerset
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Thu 16 February 2017Richard Jones on the court ready for a match of wheelchair AFL
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Thu 16 February 2017Richard Jones kicking a goal, wheelchair AFL style
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Thu 16 February 2017One of the players about to offload the football during the match
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Thu 16 February 2017Jamie Elphinstone (left) and his brother Larry after playing wheelchair AFL together
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Thu 16 February 2017Tyres were squeaking, and footballs were thudding against the shiny wooden floor of the Somerset recreation centre as players warmed up ahead of a come-and-try wheelchair AFL match.
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Thu 16 February 2017Australia's unemployment rate unexpectedly fell in January, despite a plunge in full-time jobs, underscoring the mixed picture of the country's labour market.
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Thu 16 February 2017Australia's unemployment rate falls slightly to 5.7 per cent, as a surge in part-time jobs offsets a slump in full-time work.
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Thu 16 February 2017Australia's unemployment rate fell to 5.7 per cent in January, official figures show, beating expectations of it staying at 5.8 per cent.
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Thu 16 February 2017For many disability and education advocates it's confirmation of their long held belief, but newfigures appears to suggest students with a disability face an enormous funding gap in Australian schools.
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Wed 15 February 2017Senior Coalition Minister Christopher Pyne says the Government has no "absolutely no desire or intention" to increase taxes to help pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
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Wed 15 February 2017A unity ticket which had placed the NDIS beyond politics has been shredded after a brawl broke out over its funding.
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Wed 15 February 2017Once it's fully operational, the NDIS will be one of the biggest Government-funded program after Medicare. But where will those funds come from?
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Wed 15 February 2017Labor's Jenny Macklin has told parliament the federal government's special NDIS savings account is only being set up for political purposes.
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Wed 15 February 2017If we did more to remove barriers to inclusion and quality of life for disabled people, perhaps selective abortions would cease to be the only "sensible" option.
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Wed 15 February 2017The Federal Government warns they may have to raise taxes to help pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme if the Senate continues to block its omnibus saving bill.
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Wed 15 February 2017Once it's fully operational, the NDIS will be one of the biggest Government-funded program after Medicare. But where will those funds come from?
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Wed 15 February 2017Australia's political leaders swap insults as they continue to debate how to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with Malcolm Turnbull criticising Bill Shorten's "triple train wreck of an interview" on the ABC's AM program. Follow live.
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Wed 15 February 2017Treasurer Scott Morrison says if welfare cuts are blocked by the Senate, the government will either increase taxes or increase debt.
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Tue 14 February 2017Pitching those with disabilities against those welfare recipients targeted for cuts in their latest ill-fated tranche of legislation is so crass it borders on the unbelievable.
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Tue 14 February 2017The Turnbull government's plan to link disability funding to welfare cuts has backfired spectacularly.
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Tue 14 February 2017Under Allport's leadership university staff achieved several firsts for the trade union movement as a whole: national standards providing for 26-36 weeks' paid maternity (and later parental) leave.
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Tue 14 February 2017Five-time Paralympian and disability advocate Kurt Fearnley criticises the Federal Government's decision to cut funding to other social services to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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Tue 14 February 2017Paralympian and disability advocate Kurt Fearnley says he is disappointed funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme has been linked to cuts to social services by the government.
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Tue 14 February 2017What's this about a "locked box"?
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Mon 13 February 2017For all the signs that our economy is on the mend, two influential reports on Friday highlighted the soft underbelly of Australia's labour market.
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Mon 13 February 2017What's this about a "locked box"?
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Mon 13 February 2017Treasurer Scott Morrison says he will discuss the establishment of a special savings account to quarantine money for the NDIS with the Senate.
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Mon 13 February 2017The Turnbull government is ramping up the pressure on Labor and the Senate crossbench to support its welfare cuts by tying the savings to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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Mon 13 February 2017Dr Carolyn Allport was widely known a strong voice for the values of the university sector (including academic freedom), a passionate advocate for the rights of women, a dedicated campaigner for recognition of, and restorative action for, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and a life-long supporter of social justice and the labour movement.
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Mon 13 February 2017A 21-year-old Brisbane man has been charged with repeatedly raping a woman with a disability in his care.
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Fri 10 February 2017
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Thu 9 February 2017A carer who encouraged sexual acts between two intellectually disabled people and then filmed them is jailed for his crimes, including rape.
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Thu 9 February 2017It is simply unacceptable that people with intellectual disability in our community are dying from preventable causes at over twice the rate as other Australians, write acting NSW Ombudsman Professor John McMillan and Deputy Ombudsman Steve Kinmond.
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Wed 8 February 2017When Maureen McIlquham's daughter Michelle was discharged from hospital on a cool autumn night in 2009, she never imagined the 28-year-old would be dead in the family home just hours later.
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Wed 8 February 2017Will Clarke's family hopes he can gain independence by starting a company which reconditions old cricket bats.
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