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News — Living With a Disability

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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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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