News & Views UK’s Labour Party has proposed a Race Equality Act. What would it do? UK’s Labour Party has drafted a Race Equality Act that would extend full equal pay rights to ethnic minority workers and people with disabilities.
News & Views There is overwhelming gender bias in the NDIS – and the review doesn’t address it Women are under-represented as NDIS participants and over-represented as carers. But the NDIS review did not address it.
Business Wage theft is disproportionately impacting workers with disability Slater and Gordon lawyer Cassandra Grey says workers with disability are particularly vulnerable to wage theft.
News & Views Thalidomide survivors are receiving an apology for the pharmaceutical disaster that changed pregnancy medicine Thalidomide survivors are receivin an apology, representing an important step in the healing process for those affected by thalidomide.
Tech Introducing Australia’s first social app for people with disabilities Alvie aims to connect those living with disabilities with like-minded people who share similar life experiences facilitating relationships.
News & Views Jessikah Inaba becomes the UK’s first blind, black female barrister Jessikah Inaba, has made history by becoming the first ever blind, black female barrister in the UK. She is just 23 years old.
News & Views Beyoncé removes ableist slur in song from latest album Beyoncé has removed an ableist slur from a song off her new album after a virtual backlash on social media from disability advocates.
News & Views ‘I believe everyone deserves to be seen’: Emotional standing ovation for adaptive fashion show at Fashion Week “I believe everyone deserves to be seen” Adaptive Fashion generates emotional standing ovation at AAFW this morning in Sydney.
News & Views Let’s talk about the NDIS: we cannot underestimate the value of supporting Australians with disability It’s important that we don’t disproportionately focus on the cost of the NDIS to the detriment of the overwhelmingly positive impact it has.
Entrepreneurs Transforming ‘mainstream fashion’: Designers launch major collaboration for this year’s Australian Fashion Week Carol Taylor has announced collaboration with Jessie Sadler to showcase their new designs at AFTERPAY Australian Fashion Week in May.
Books ‘We’ve Got This’: The first major anthology by parents with disabilities In We’ve Got This, twenty-five parents who identify as Deaf, disabled or chronically ill discuss the highs and lows of their parenting journeys and reveal that the greatest obstacles lie in other people’s attitudes.
Health Women with disabilities twice as likely to experience physical and sexual violence Sexism and ableist attitudes are leading to a shocking number of Australian women experiencing violence, a new study has revealed.