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Being Street Smart – Legal Aid NSW

July 26, 2016 by Gus Frystak

Sometimes getting into trouble can be easy. But getting out of trouble, well that’s a bit more challenging. You might get into trouble with the police. What you do each […]

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Building a disability inclusive Australia

July 19, 2016 by Gus Frystak

Building a disability inclusive Australia – Australian Cross Disability Alliance on ABC Radio. This week, we talk to the country’s leading Indigenous Disability advocacy group, the FPDN about the benefits of […]

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Intellectual disability mental health e-Learning

July 14, 2016 by Gus Frystak

3DN provides free eLearning about intellectual disability to professionals, carers, and consumers. Our goal is to improve your knowledge, skills and confidence, leading to better mental health and wellbeing for […]

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Understanding the NDIS: the scheme does not yet address all the needs of Indigenous people with disabilities

July 11, 2016 by Gus Frystak

On July 1 2016, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) moved from a trial phase to a full national roll-out. In this series on Understanding the NDIS, we explore how […]

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We have an NDIS but what does this mean for disability care?

July 6, 2016 by Gus Frystak

We have an NDIS but what does this mean for disability care? The government also announced the name for the new scheme: DisabilityCare Australia. This name reflects the central ambition […]

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What is the NDIS?

July 4, 2016 by Gus Frystak

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is the new way of providing support for people with disability, their families and carers in Australia.The NDIS will provide about 460,000 Australians under […]

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December 12, 2017

The ConversationThree reasons Australians should be concerned that NGOs’ voices are not being heard. A healthy democracy is built on the premise that public debate should allow for many and diverse voices to be heard as part of the contest for ideas that informs policymaking. If Australians want this to be the case, the current state of play offers three reasons for concern.

December 11, 2017

Family MattersThe Family Matters Report 2017 shows the rate at which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are removed from their families continues to be an escalating national crisis. Without immediate action from all levels of government further generations of children will be lost to their families, cultures and communities. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are 9.8 times more likely to be living in out-of-home care than non-Indigenous children.

December 7, 2017

Mission AustraliaMission Australia have just released results from their 16th Youth Survey, in which 24,055 young people aged 15 to 19 took part. Young people identified mental health, alcohol and drugs and equity and discrimination as the most important issues in Australia today, with around one third of young people identifying mental health (33.7%) or alcohol and drugs (32.0%) as important issues in Australia today and almost three in ten respondents identifying equity and discrimination (27.3%) as a major issue. 

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