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WWILD is Recruiting – 2 Trauma Counsellor Roles

WWILD is Recruiting – 2 Trauma Counsellor Roles WWILD is currently recruiting for two roles within our supportive and innovative team Role: WWILD Trauma Counsellor Location: Brisbane North Employment Type: Permanent Part-time 30 hours/week Wage: Level 5 SCHADS Award WWILD PD_Trauma Counsellor (Level 5) Brisbane North position description April 2025   Role: WWILD Trauma Counsellor […]

Health outcomes for people with intellectual disability remain ‘comparable to third world countries’ – ABC News

Health outcomes for people with intellectual disability remain ‘comparable to third world countries’  – ABC News By national disability affairs reporter Nas Campanella and the Specialist Reporting Team’s Evan Young   Australians with intellectual disability continue to experience unconscious bias in the medical system and much poorer health outcomes than people without disability. On average, they die 27 […]

Homicide in Australia report shows almost half the women murdered last financial year were killed by a current or former intimate partner – ABC News

Homicide in Australia report shows almost half the women murdered last financial year were killed by a current or former intimate partner – ABC News By Charlotte Gore and Jade Toomey Posted 29.4.24 In short: The Australian Institute of Criminology’s Homicide in Australia report shows 49 per cent of female victims of homicide were killed by a former or current intimate partner […]

Call For Legal Aid For Australians With Disability – ABC News

Call For Legal Aid for Australians With Disability ABC News Broadcast by Nick Grimm In recent years legal aid services around the country have warned that too little government funding has left them struggling to ensure everyone can equal access to justice, regardless of income. But this year the peak body National Legal Aid is calling […]

Review details how NDIS Commission failed to act over controversial autism program – ABC News

Review details how NDIS Commission failed to act over controversial autism program – ABC News ABC Investigations / By Anne Connolly and Ninah Kopel Posted Wed 10 Apr 2024 at 3:25pmWednesday 10 Apr 2024 at 3:25pm, updated Wed 10 Apr 2024 at 4:26pm   In short:  Former judge Jennifer Boland found the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission failed to take action to close […]

Treatment of man with disability referred to QLD’s human rights watchdog – ABC News

Treatment of man at Brisbane’s Forensic Disability Service referred to Queensland’s human rights watchdog – ABC News State political reporters Kate McKenna, Rachel Riga and Alexandra Blucher, ABC Investigations; Posted Tue 17 Oct 2023 at 5:47am, updated Tue 17 Oct 2023 at 2:20pm   A complaint has labelled the treatment of the man with an intellectual disability as “cruel, inhuman and […]