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Social group gives deaf people and those who want to learn Auslan safe space to connect
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When Gail and Neville Pittaway head to the pub with their mates, it is mostly quiet, other than laughter.
It is because they are chatting with their friends using sign language.
The couple are both deaf and neither used Auslan until they were older.
"When I was little, we weren't allowed to use sign language at all … we had to lip read, we had to speak," Mr Pittaway said.
Paralympian Michael Dobbie-Bridges switched his tennis racket for a football, leading a new league in Queensland
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For years, Paralympian Michael Dobbie-Bridges's life was tennis, representing Australia in the 2008 Beijing Paralympics to six World Cups in wheelchair tennis.
Despite achieving a world ranking of 29 in singles and 27 in doubles, he's traded his racket for a football — now the captain-coach of a local wheelchair AFL league on Brisbane's southside called the Morningside Panthers.
How disabled women athletes are helping mainstream sport clubs become more inclusive
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For Thomas Mackenlay, the hardest part of wheelchair basketball is shooting for the hoop.
It hasn't stopped the nine-year-old from wanting to pursue the sport further.
Artists with intellectual disabilities unite with Melbourne food icons to bring popular recipes to the canvas
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Artist vies to become Sydney's first Aboriginal councillor with a disability
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Shared e-bikes blocking pathways and access to Auslan interpreters at council events are some of the things Daniel McDonald says he would address if elected to City of Sydney's council at the upcoming local government election.
Mr McDonald, a Wonnarua man and disability advocate, is vying to become one of the first councillors in Sydney who lives with a disability.