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Netball's Marie Little Shield returns, giving people with intellectual disability chance to play for state or territory

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Netball's Marie Little Shield returns, giving people with intellectual disability chance to play for state or territory

This month, netball's Marie Little Shield will return for the first time in three years, after the 2020 and 2021 editions had to be cancelled due to COVID-19.

The national competition, named after leading sports administrator Marie Little, offers netballers with an intellectual disability the chance to represent their state or territory.

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Budget airlines make it hard for people with disabilities to travel, but Australian tourist sights get top marks

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Budget airlines make it hard for people with disabilities to travel, but Australian tourist sights get top marks

As a power wheelchair user with a complex physical disability, I've never been on a plane.

Not even when I travelled across Australia from rural Western Australia to the remote opal mining town of Lightning Ridge in New South Wales.

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AstroAccess zero gravity flight to help Dwayne Fernandes achieve space dream

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AstroAccess zero gravity flight to help Dwayne Fernandes achieve space dream

Dwayne Fernandes says he always dreamed of going into space but thought his disability would put the goal out of reach. 

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Dylan Alcott issues passionate defence of the NDIS at the disability royal commission

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Dylan Alcott issues passionate defence of the NDIS at the disability royal commission

Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott has delivered an impassioned defence of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), declaring "it's not broken — it's bloody great".

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NDIS funding for equine therapy returned after mother wins campaign for autistic son

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NDIS funding for equine therapy returned after mother wins campaign for autistic son

When Kelly Delaforce sees her 11-year-old son Riley walking with a horse, calmly interacting, she knows her battle to retain equine therapy on his NDIS plan has been worth the 12-month appeal.

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