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Wed 26 September 2018A mother in northern Tasmania raises concerns about the standard of training for teachers working with children who have disabilities, saying her daughter, who has autism, was traumatised and teased after being placed in an open box in her classroom.
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Wed 26 September 2018To save Mike Rolls, doctors amputated parts of his body, including his right leg. Nine years later, he made the decision to "ditch the dead weight" and amputate the other one. This is why.
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Wed 26 September 2018To save Mike Rolls, doctors amputated parts of his body, including his right leg. Nine years later, he made the decision to amputate the other one. This is why.
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Sun 23 September 2018Roya Hosini, who had previously been turned away from the Eiffel Tower, is furious after a guard at the French catacombs said that letting her into the landmark would be like "letting a blind person fly a plane".
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Sun 23 September 2018Roya Hosini, who had previously been turned away from the Eiffel Tower, is furious after a guard at the French catacombs said that letting her into the landmark would be like "letting a blind person fly a plane".
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Sun 23 September 2018Damien Irish was left with PTSD, anxiety and depression after 12 years with Defence. He says it took his wife kicking him out of the house to force him to confront his "spiralling" mental health issues.
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Sun 23 September 2018Roya Hosini travels the world working as a performer.
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Sun 23 September 2018Roya Hosini is furious after a guard at the French catacombs said that letting her into the landmark would be like "letting a blind person fly a plane".
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Sat 22 September 2018Modern prosthetics now give amputees the freedom of movement that was once only dreamt of, as Australia's veterans gear up to compete in the Invictus Games.
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Fri 21 September 2018A former Fair Work ombudsman will head a Victorian Government inquiry into the exploitation of workers in the state's emerging gig-economy and on-demand industry.
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Fri 21 September 2018Protesters are on the roof of a South Australian abattoir in response to footage they allege shows sheep, cattle and pigs being killed inhumanely.
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Fri 21 September 2018The federal government is refusing to extend an upcoming aged care royal commission to include the disability sector.
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Fri 21 September 2018Some of Australia's most vulnerable families feel they have been abandoned by the Federal Government after changes to childcare payments left them with huge costs and a bureaucratic nightmare.
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Thu 20 September 2018From 20 September 2018, you’ll need to meet an income test to get Carer Allowance.
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Wed 19 September 2018Therese Sands
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Wed 19 September 2018The Prime Minister has rejected calls to include the disability sector in the royal commission into aged care, but there are still avenue for people with disability to report violence or abuse.
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Wed 19 September 2018Helping children who have lost hands in landmine explosions and other accidents leads students from a high school south of Brisbane to engage in engineering.
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Wed 19 September 2018Helping children who have lost hands in landmine explosions and other accidents leads students from a high school south of Brisbane to engage in engineering.
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Tue 18 September 2018Greens senator Jordon Steele-John breaks down in Parliament as he lists the names and shocking ways people living with disabilities have died while in residential and institutional care.
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Tue 18 September 2018Ulverstone was a ground zero in Australia's divisive gay rights debate in the 1980s and 90s; now the local council shows its support with a motion of inclusion.
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Tue 18 September 2018In the early 1900s, young Australian actress Muriel Matters achieved notoriety in Britain after pulling off a series of brave and quirky stunts in the name of women's rights.
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Tue 18 September 2018Greens senator Jordon Steele-John calls for the aged care royal commission to be expanded to also encompass the abuse of people in disability care, citing "unspeakable acts of cruelty".
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Mon 17 September 2018Telecommunications companies' push into providing sports content and 'telcotainment' poses a threat to traditional pay-TV players, like News Corp's Foxtel.
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Sun 16 September 2018It is the RBA's big conundrum. It supports population growth and high employment participation rates, the two key drivers keeping employment rates high and wage growth low.
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Sun 16 September 2018It is the RBA's big conundrum. It supports population growth and high employment participation rates, the two key drivers keeping employment rates high and wage growth low.
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Sun 16 September 2018Lawyers allege Petrea Aslett didn't receive simple tests when she presented to hospital at 30 weeks gestation, and the severe reaction she had to the medication she was given caused her son to be born prematurely with a brain injury that will impact his life.
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Fri 14 September 2018Doctors are wrongly assuming patients with intellectual disabilities have no quality of life and they are suffering avoidable deaths, a Tasmanian inquiry hears.
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It was another normal day of training when Lauren Parker suddenly lost the feeling in her right handFri 14 September 2018After a terrible twist of fate, Lauren Parker is facing the prospect of becoming a quadriplegic. This weekend she is set to put it all on the line in what could be her final race.
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Fri 14 September 2018Inclusivity and diversity was at the forefront of Rihanna's new lingerie line, which was featured at New York Fashion Week.
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Fri 14 September 2018After a terrible twist of fate, Lauren Parker is facing the prospect of becoming a quadriplegic. This weekend she is set to put it all on the line in what could be her final race.
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Fri 14 September 2018A trial project — turning waste paper into kitty litter — creates employment opportunities for north Queenslanders with a disability.
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Thu 13 September 2018A call to use environmental water to help drought-affected farmers has been rekindled by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, but his own colleagues are ruling out the idea.
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Thu 13 September 2018
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Thu 13 September 2018A new toolkit aims to allow people with disabilities to prepare for natural disasters and emergencies and address the higher risks they face.
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Thu 13 September 2018The jobs market looks to be tightening and the prospects for wage rises growing with more jobs being created and underutilisation rates falling.
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Thu 13 September 2018Thousands of children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder miss out on NDIS funding because there are so few specialists who can diagnose and assess the impact of the condition.
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Wed 12 September 2018Cerebral palsy is a brain disorder that affects about 34,000 Australians.
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Wed 12 September 2018Having a child born with a disability can feel isolating and lonely, but it can also bring people together — in some cases, from vastly different cultures and countries.
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