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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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Beeping cricket ball inventor and Blind Bats founder Paul Szep celebrates progress in modified game

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Beeping cricket ball inventor and Blind Bats founder Paul Szep celebrates progress in modified game

Paul Szep has been blind since he was three, but that never dampened his love of cricket. 

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Shepparton disability provider Gallawah rapidly growing thanks to unique service

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Shepparton disability provider Gallawah rapidly growing thanks to unique service

The founder of a disability support provider in regional Victoria that specialises in working with people in the justice system hopes to see her model change lives across Australia.   

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Paralympian Kurt Fearnley to chair National Disability Insurance Agency board

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Paralympian Kurt Fearnley to chair National Disability Insurance Agency board

The founder of a disability support provider in regional Victoria that specialises in working with people in the justice system hopes to see her model change lives across Australia.   

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Kurt Fearnley's job at the top of the NDIS gives the disability community hope about the scheme's future again

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Kurt Fearnley's job at the top of the NDIS gives the disability community hope about the scheme's future again

Growing up in the 80's with a disability was no mean feat. 

We had to deal with inadequate resources and an expectation that we should be grateful for what we received. 

For me, it was my prosthetic leg, bog-standard and ba

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