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Disability campaigner Joan Hume hated being called 'an inspiration'
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High school teacher Joan Hume was 23 when she broke her neck in a car accident, leaving her with quadriplegia.
But if her colleagues thought that was the end of her career, they were very wrong. It was the 1970s and schools weren't prepared for a teacher who uses a wheelchair.
Elizabeth Caplice changed the way we talk about cancer
Fanny Cochrane Smith was our first Aboriginal recording artist
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In 1899 and 1903, Australia's first Aboriginal 'recording star' Fanny Cochrane Smith leaned into the brass trumpet of the Edison phonograph and sang about flowers and birds in her language of Pakana.
Carol's inclusive fashion a creative canvas for disability art
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During the past 20 years, Gold Coast NDIS participant and lawyer, artist and fashion designer Carol Taylor has refused to let stumbling blocks stand in her way.
After the car accident, which left her instantly paralysed and a quadriplegic at the age of 34—newlywed and desperate for a baby—Carol persevered with IVF for 8 years only to conceive naturally and give birth to a healthy son, though doctors had told her she would never have a child.