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Wed 18 February 2015After Connor McLeod was given money for Christmas but could not tell how much he had, he began lobbying the Reserve Bank to print tactile banknotes - a campaign that has now paid off.
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Wed 18 February 2015Supermarket giant Coles has agreed to improve its online shopping website so that it can be more easily accessed by blind people, after being taken to court for alleged disability discrimination.
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Wed 18 February 2015After Connor McLeod was given money for Christmas but could not tell how much he had, he began lobbying the Reserve Bank to print tactile banknotes - a campaign that has now paid off.
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Wed 18 February 2015Twelve ordinary people hear evidence about whether or not the $22-billion NDIS is delivering on its promise.
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Wed 18 February 2015Thousands of parents who are waiting for their children to be assessed under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) still have no clear timeframe for when they will be given funding.
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Wed 18 February 2015The 30,000th wheelchair for disabled children in developing countries rolls off the production line in Perth, bound for Myanmar.
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Wed 18 February 2015Video footage showing a double amputee and an elderly woman with a chronic lung condition hauling themselves up a flight of stairs at a Wollongong train station has prompted outrage among locals.
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Wed 18 February 2015Shock and outrage over footage showing a double amputee dragging himself up stairs at a Wollongong train station
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Tue 17 February 2015South Australian parents welcome a move to install monitoring equipment in buses used by children with disabilities, but say it has taken too long.
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Tue 17 February 2015A new system could be put in place to check the backgrounds of disability support workers, as part of the national disability insurance scheme rollout.
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Mon 16 February 2015Former disability commissioner Graeme Innes would head a panel aimed at encouraging employers to hire people with disabilities if Labor were elected in NSW.
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Mon 16 February 2015A new system could be put in place to check the backgrounds of disability support workers, as part of the national disability insurance scheme rollout.
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Sat 14 February 2015Reserve Bank officials have admitted that youth unemployment is a “significant concern” in Australia, after rising to the highest level since 1998, but they have cautioned against jumping to conclusions about what the data represents
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Sat 14 February 2015Treasurer Joe Hockey says unemployment would now be 7.5 per cent but for the government's efforts to boost the economy.
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Fri 13 February 2015Reserve Bank officials have admitted that youth unemployment is a “significant concern” in Australia, after rising to the highest level since 1998, but they have cautioned against jumping to conclusions about what the data represents
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Fri 13 February 2015Reserve Bank officials have admitted that youth unemployment is a “significant concern” in Australia, after rising to the highest level since 1998, but they have cautioned against jumping to conclusions about what the data represents
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Fri 13 February 2015Reserve Bank officials have admitted that youth unemployment is a “significant concern” in Australia, after rising to the highest level since 1998, but they have cautioned against jumping to conclusions about what the data represents
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Fri 13 February 2015Treasurer Joe Hockey says unemployment would now be 7.5 per cent but for the government's efforts to boost the economy.
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Fri 13 February 2015Never at any point during Labor's reign or during the global financial crisis did Australia's unemployment rate hit 6 per cent.
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Fri 13 February 2015For the first time, vision-impaired and blind people are given a chance to touch the floats and costumes ahead of the Adelaide Fringe Festival parade.
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Fri 13 February 2015The new head of the Bureau of Statistics has a disarming reply to people who complain that the bureau's unemployment data is unreliable. It's to not rely on it.
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Fri 13 February 2015Australia's highest unemployment rate in over a decade has jolted the Australian economy, rocked the Abbott government, and increased the pressure on the Reserve Bank to order yet another interest rate cut when it meets in coming months.
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Fri 13 February 2015CHANCES have increased that the RBA will cut rates further after the official unemployment rate hit a fresh 12-year high.
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Fri 13 February 2015The SA government is disappointed at the state's 7.3 per cent unemployment rate, as the national rate rose to 6.4 per cent.
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Thu 12 February 2015Never at any point during Labor's reign or during the global financial crisis did Australia's unemployment rate hit 6 per cent.
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Thu 12 February 2015Australia's highest unemployment rate in over a decade has jolted the Australian economy, rocked the Abbott government, and increased the pressure on the Reserve Bank to order yet another interest rate cut when it meets in coming months.
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Thu 12 February 2015Employment Minister Eric Abetz says actions taken by the Abbott government won't work like magic overnight to create more jobs.
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Thu 12 February 2015The unemployment rate rose to 6.4 per cent in January from 6.1 per cent in December, a result that was worse than market expectations.
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Thu 12 February 2015The Federal Government says the climb in the unemployment rate is "disappointing", but says it is too early to describe the sharp rise as a trend.
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Thu 12 February 2015The Federal Government says the climb in the unemployment rate is "disappointing", but says it is too early to describe the sharp rise as a trend.
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Thu 12 February 2015Queensland lost more jobs in the past month as retailers shed casual holiday staff, raising the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate from 6.2 per cent to 6.5 per cent.
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Thu 12 February 2015The unemployment rate rose to 6.4 per cent in January from 6.1 per cent in December, a result that was worse than market expectations.
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Thu 12 February 2015THE Australian dollar slumped today following worse-than-expected employment figures, while shares edge lower as investors watch interim profit reports flow in.
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Thu 12 February 2015Unemployment surges to 6.4 per cent, its highest level since August 2002, with 12,200 jobs estimated to have been lost in January.
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Thu 12 February 2015Australia's unemployment rate rose back to 6.2 per cent In January, making its surprise fall to 6.1 per cent in December short-lived.
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Thu 12 February 2015The unemployment rate rose to 6.4 per cent in January, higher than expected.
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Thu 12 February 2015Economists expect Australia's unemployment rate to rise when official figures are released later this morning.
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Thu 12 February 2015Victoria's disability activists are concerned safeguards protecting vulnerable people in care will be watered down by the introduction of a national scheme.
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Thu 12 February 2015The unemployment rate is expected to have hit 6.2 per cent in January, as employment growth slows from recent months.
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Thu 12 February 2015The unemployment rate is expected to have hit 6.2 per cent in January, as employment growth slows from recent months.
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Wed 11 February 2015The unemployment rate is expected to have hit 6.2 per cent in January, as employment growth slows from recent months.
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Tue 10 February 2015The unemployment rate is expected to have hit 6.2 per cent in January, as employment growth slows from recent months.
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Tue 10 February 2015The unemployment rate is expected to have hit 6.2 per cent in January, as employment growth slows from recent months.
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Mon 9 February 2015A program must be wholly or partially funded by the Commonwealth to be considered a Program of Support.
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Sun 8 February 2015With a growing number of business leaders and economists ascribing soft consumer and investor confidence to the Abbott government's sliding fortunes since last May's budget, many traders and investors will be looking for an end to leadership speculation with Monday's vote on whether or not Prime Minister Tony Abbott's position will be contested.
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Sun 8 February 2015Disability service providers have called on the new Andrews government to ensure almost 900,000 Victorians with a disability are not left behind by the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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Fri 6 February 2015The Federal Government's cuts to the disability sector are a “catastrophic” blow and breach the United Nations convention on the rights of disabled people, advocacy groups and one of the architects of the convention says.
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Fri 6 February 2015Thousands of TAFE students with disabilities are "stunned" and confused after being sent letters setting out course fee costs when they thought they were exempt.
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Fri 6 February 2015Australia should do more to increase the involvement of artists and performers with disabilities on stage and screen, a leading dancer and choreographer says.
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Fri 6 February 2015A New Zealand documentary maker hopes his new film on Indigenous deaf people in the Pacific will lead to the provision of better educational and vocational resources for those communities.
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