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Artists living with disability retreat to the Australian bush to find inspiration post COVID-19 lockdown

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Artists living with disability retreat to the Australian bush to find inspiration post COVID-19 lockdown

These female artists living with disabilities have been freed from months of isolation due to coronavirus lockdowns — and now they've reignited their creative minds in the Australian bush.

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Disability organisations rally against proposal to introduce independent assessments

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Disability organisations rally against proposal to introduce independent assessments

More than 20 disability organisations have called on the federal government to abandon a plan which they say will force people to explain their support needs to a stranger in less than three hours, or risk losing their NDIS funding.

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The Adventures Of The Boy Who Was Told He’d Never Speak

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The Adventures Of The Boy Who Was Told He’d Never Speak

For Year 7, I started at a little school in the NSW outback with an enrolment of 150 students from K-12. At first, there were no problems, then things started to go wrong, writes William McIntosh.

Content note: Descriptions of bullying, ableism and a mention of suicide.

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They’re Denying Us A Basic Human Right, And That Will Never Be Okay

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They’re Denying Us A Basic Human Right, And That Will Never Be Okay

Here in NSW, Year 12 and the HSC is one of the most stressful times in a young person’s life. Society tells us that the mark we get at the end of those exams will define our future – deciding the paths we take as adults and which doors will be open to us in the mystical world of careers and money.

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The politics of distraction…

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The politics of distraction…

We’ve all been worried for a while now about what changes were going to be made this year to the legislation that governs the NDIS.

Well yesterday the Minister for the NDIS Stuart Robert gave an interview on talkback radio in Sydney – and let slip some of what he has planned.

And in the process pretty much confirmed what we were all so worried about.

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