Australian and New Zealand Disability News Document List

List of Australia - NZ Publications:

• Adelaide Disability Expo to be held in May

  Adelaide Disability Expo will connect locals living with disability and their carers with NDIS providers providing advice, support and information to maximize NDIS plans and funding.

• Early Childhood Intervention Australia (ECIA) - Working Together Agreement Package

  The Working Together Agreement package has been developed for use by families, early childhood educators and early childhood intervention practitioners to promote a coordinated approach to early childhood inclusion.

• Australia Launches Braille Banknotes

  The new banknotes are the culmination of many years of research and trial and extensive consultation.

• Over a Million Australians Live in Unhealthy Housing Conditions

  Research highlights link between poor living conditions and health, and estimates over one million Australians are living in sub-standard housing.

• Hands off the NDIS: Australian Cross Disability Alliance

  Reports that Australian Federal Government is considering changes to funding and governance of NDIS have alarmed people with disability.

• National Cross Disability Alliance for Australians with Disabilities

  Alliance representing people with disability to provide advice to Australian Government on improving social and economic participation, and breaking down barriers.

• Cancer Rates and Burden in Australia

  Snapshot of cancer in Australia based on cancer data holdings and reports including statistics on incidence mortality survival and participation in national cancer screening programs.

• Every Australian Counts - Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme

  Every Australian Counts is the campaign for the introduction of a National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia.

• Intellectual Disability Mental Illness is an Unmet Need

  Calling for better recognition services and funding for people who have both an intellectual disability and mental illness.

• Australian Disability Support Pension Recipients Who Are Denied Right to Travel Freely Internationally

  Thousands of Australian Disability Support Pension recipients like to spend as much time as possible overseas.

• Malnutrition: A skeleton in the Australian Health Care Closest

  Many elderly Australians are either admitted to hospital suffering malnutrition or become malnourished while in hospital.

• NSW Seniors Card Discount Directories Out this Week

  The 2011 Seniors Card Discount Directories will be sent to NSW Seniors Card holders from today.

• Australian Aid Improving Lives of People with Disability

  Release of report on AusAid work overseas to improve the lives of people with disability.

• Australian Deaf Community Celebrates National Awareness Week

  The NSW Minister for Disability Services encouraged people to learn more about the deaf community.

• Dance Troupe with Intellectual and Physical Disabilities Visit Disneyland

  Dance group of children and adults with intellectual and physical disabilities from Sydney will be performing at Disneyland in California this week.

• Australian Gillard Government Silent on Disabilities Report

  Government remains silent as thousands of Australians with intellectual and developmental disabilities subject to serious abuses of human rights.

• New Service Provider to Deliver Supported Living for People with Disability - ACT, Australia

  Able Australia will provide community based support services for 20 people with disability in nine households across the ACT.

• People with Disability Call for Self-determination and Individualized Funding

  Policy and practice must recognize that it is society which creates significant barriers for people with disability.

• Canon's Continued Support for People with Disability is Good Business

  Canon Australia will honor seventy employees at New Horizons Enterprises Limited.

• Murrays Bus Company Faces Discrimination Complaint - Australia Disability News

  Public transport providers have a legal obligation to ensure all new vehicles comply with national Disability Standards.

• Outstanding Australian Carers to be Recognized

  Minister for Disability Services Peter Primrose more than 90 awards would be presented covering every community in the State.

• Disability and Decision 2010 - The Coalition Need to Get it Right - Australia

  Lack of awareness of how barriers to social activities can keep people with disability marginalized and excluded in our community.

• Needs of Students with a Disability and Their Families Recognized

  The Coalition have assured that nationally agreed definitions of disabilities will be secured before July 2011.

• National Disability Insurance Scheme Must be at the Core of Any National Disability Strategy - Disability News Australia

  National disability insurance scheme that provides long-term care and support to all Australians with a serious or profound disability.

• New Disability Standards for New Buildings in Australia

  Australian government wants all new homes to better accommodate senior citizens and people with disabilities.

• Response to Enabling Australia - Joint Statement

  Migration Report offers opportunity for Gillard Government to change outmoded legislation.

• 2010 Disability Services Census - Australia

  The Disability Services Census for 2010 will be sent to service providers on 1 July 2010 for completion by Friday 23 July 2010.

• End Absurdity of Excluding People with Disability from Australia

  Reviewing the treatment of disability as part of the migration regulations.

• Heart and Stroke Deaths Peak in Winter

  Rates of cardiovascular disease increase dramatically in Australian winters.

• NSW Aging and Disability Services Commitment Continues

  Outgoing Minister for aging and Disability Services Paul Lynch has welcomed the appointment of Peter Primrose to the portfolio.

• Launch of Children with Disability Australia

  Launch of Children with Disability Australia representing Australian children and youths with disabilities.

• Height Adjustable Examination Beds in Doctors Surgeries for Disability Access

  Doctors surgeries to have height adjustable examination beds for better access to medical care for people with a disability.

• Disability Care Beds Concern - Disability News Australia

  Plan to provide 300 new residential care beds for the severely disabled.

• Fraser Coast Housing for Persons with a Disability

  Properties will increase amount of affordable accommodation for people with a disability in Bundaberg and Hervey Bay.

• People with a Disability Gain Better Beach Access

  The Safer Beach Access and Experience Program for People with Disabilities and Mobility Issues project.

• Australia to Improve Media Access for Vision and Hearing Impaired

  Access to television cinema and other electronic media for people with a hearing or vision impairment.

• Australia Considers New Disability Approach

  Productivity Commission will investigate new approaches for funding and delivering long-term disability care and support.

• Australia's First All Abilities Playground

  Livvis Place at Timbrell Park is the initiative of the Touched by Olivia Foundation and the result of a unique partnership of three founding partners.

• Australian Hospital Infections Cost $1 billion in Lost Bed Days

  Infections caught in hospital are costing the Australian healthcare system more than 850,000 lost bed days.

• World-first May Revolutionize Child Sponsorship

  The program differs from other similar sponsorships by putting all donors in touch with a single symbolic child.

• Australian Disability Report Strengthens Argument for Long Term Care Scheme

  Carers devote their lives to supporting a disabled loved one investing all of their financial emotional and physical resources until there is nothing left..

• National's Disability Policy One Big Empty Space

  I am appalled at the resounding silence and lack of action from the National Government to the disability sector.

• Australia Improving Lives of Landmine Survivors

  Australia will provide $2.4 million for prosthetics and the rehabilitation of Iraqi landmine survivors and other victims of conflict.

• Workplace Disability Management Program a First

  Institution to offer a specialized training and professional certification program in workplace disability management.

• Australian Community Site for Parents Raising Kids with Autism Spectrum

  Raising Children Network will today launch the national website for parents of young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.