WWDA – Easy Read version of Our Site for women and girls with disability
Women with Disabilities Australia – Easy Read version of ‘Our Site for women and girls with disability’ leading the way for accessible websites. Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) are again leading the way in advancing the rights of all women with disability through the release of an Easy Read version of the Our Site website. […]
Letter To WWILD’s Supporters – Deaths of Willow Dunn, Ann Marie Smith, Abuse and neglect of two young boys
Letter To WWILD’s Supporters WWILD would like to acknowledge and respond to the callous indifference and lack of humanity that led to the deaths of four year old Willow Dunn in Brisbane and Ann Marie Smith recently, and the two teenage boys who were recently found in squalid conditions of neglect. Unfortunately these experiences are […]
Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN) Open letter regarding recent deaths, abuse and neglect of people with disabilities
Open letter to QDN members and supporters Like all of you, QDN directors, members and staff are deeply saddened and frustrated by the deaths of Willow Dunn and Ann Marie Smith and the discovery of two disabled teens locked in a squalid Brisbane bedroom. We know this is a difficult time for the disability community. […]
‘Urgent action’ needed over high proportion of Indigenous women in prison – ABC news
‘Urgent action’ needed over high proportion of Indigenous women in prison, report says By Philippa McDonald Posted, updated 31 March 2020 Link to article The number of Indigenous women in custody has been called “one of the most challenging human rights issues facing Australia”. Key points: Research shows a “disturbing over-representation” of Indigenous prisoners Poverty, family violence, abuse and trauma […]
Adelaide woman’s ‘degrading’ death shows community’s ‘devaluation’ of people with disabilities – ABC News
Adelaide woman’s ‘degrading’ death shows community’s ‘devaluation’ of people with disabilities – ABC News By Eugene Boisvert and Daniel Keane Posted 16 May 2020 Click here for link to article The case of an Adelaide woman who died after being left by carers in a cane chair 24-hours-a-day for a year shows the community still does not value people with disabilities […]
Now is the time to act on pandemic measures for people with disability
Now is the time to act on pandemic measures for people with disability APRIL 3, 2020 / UNCATEGORIZED People with disability, and their organisations, across Australia are calling for urgent action, again, to keep us safe during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Over 70 national, state and territory disability organisations have come together to urge the […]
COVID-19 Update – WWILD Services
What to do if feeling sick – COVID-19 & Influenza WWILD’s programs use WWILD’s Physical Health and Well-being Safety Plan. WWILD has a duty of care to its client and staff group to provide a healthy space for individual and group activities. WWILD is an essential service and will provide necessary support to all clients, […]
International Women’s Day lifts the lid on human rights for women and girls with disability – Women with Disabilities Australia
International Women’s Day lifts the lid on human rights for women and girls with disability – Women with Disabilities Australia Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) has launched a new website, Our Place, just in time for International Women’s Day. The ‘Our Place’ website has been developed to support women and girls with disability to […]
Research: Causes and contributors to deaths of people with disability in Australia – NDIS report
Research: Causes and contributors to deaths of people with disability in Australia – NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission report Excerpt: The research In early 2019, to further inform our work in this area, we engaged Professor Julian Trollor, Chair, Intellectual Disability Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry at the University of […]
Rough justice: How police are failing survivors of sexual assault – ABC News
Rough justice: How police are failing survivors of sexual assault by Inga Ting, Nathanael Scott and Alex Palmer Updated 29 Jan 2020, 11:11am Published 28 Jan 2020, 5:05am Excerpt More than 140,000 sexual assaults were reported to Australian police in the 10 years to 2017. Police rejected nearly 12,000 reports on the basis that they do not believe a sexual assault occurred. To see […]
