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Caroline Bowditch – 2024 Sidney Myer Creative Fellows Announced
Megan Spindler Smith – PWDA Welcomes National Action Plan For LGBTIQA+ Health And Wellbeing, Calls For Strong Implementation
Shane Hryhorec – Video Podcast: The fight for disability rights on flights
Shane Hryhorec – ‘Sky is the limit’: the untapped potential of accessible tourism in Australia
Katie Kelly – Parker’s Paralympic Gold Leads Aussie Triathlon’s Night of Nights
Katie Kelly – Historic Champions Jacobs and Kelly Join Triathlon’s Greatest
Matt Warren – Awards Celebrate Victorian Work On Disability Inclusion
Shane Hryhorec – ‘Enough is enough’, say aviation disability advocates
Kat Reed – Our Lives,Our Voices – shaping the future through voice, power, identity and self-direction.
Shane Hryhorec – Govt Must Ensure Disabled Airline Access, Not Airlines
Shane Hryhorec – ‘Enough is enough’: Disability advocates call for air travel to be more accessible
Kat Reed – DISABILITY FOUNDATIONAL WORK NEEDS COMMUNITY FUNDING
Alastair McEwin, Megan Spindler Smith – Voice Of Our Own Online National Conference
Megan Spindler Smith – Outback beekeeper looks to hire NDIS clients
Emma Bennison – Meet the recipient of the Lesley Hall Lifetime Achievement Award
Morwenna Collett – Musically able: music from composers and performers with disability connected to Sydney
Simon Darcy – Are airlines failing in their duty of care to people with disabilities?
Christina Ryan – Why aren’t there more disabled people in leadership roles?
Disability Leadership Institute – Breaking barriers: Elevating disability leadership for a more inclusive future
Kat Reed – COMMUNITY TAKES DISABILITY DAY LEAD
Carly Findlay – “Resilience and strength”: IDPwD highlights value disabilities
Emma Bennison, Disability Leadership Institute – SBS midday news bulletin
Disability Leadership Institute – ABC features stories by, for, and about Australians living with disability
Disability Leadership Institute – Enhancing disability representation in leadership
Emma Olivier – Why we need more people with disability in leadership
Gemma Smart – International Day of Persons with Disabilities: community and action
Carly Findlay – Sensitivity readers: why do we need them?
Sarah Langton – What does the future hold for the NDIS – and its participants?
Disability Leadership Institute – Deaf defying: disability leadership as an act of resistance — with Dr Scott Avery
The Disability Leadership Oration
Megan Spindler Smith – PWDA Urges Gov’t to End ADEs After Rapporteur Call
Shane Hryhorec – Traumatic reason Aussie passenger ‘will never cruise’ with MSC again
Lesley Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement
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Samantha Jenkinson – Newman History 6753 (podcast)
Megan Spindler Smith – Would you benefit from the nine cost-of-living report recommendations?
Fiona Yeang – Standing meeting lacks insight
Gemma Smart – SUPRA officers elected to CAPA
Dan Stubbs, Christina Ryan – SDAC24 Interviews (videos)
Carly Findlay – Hear from a lived experience
Megan Spindler Smith – PWDA Responds To NDIA STA And Respite Changes
Yenn Purkis, Disability Leadership Institute – Ways to celebrate I-Day in Canberra
Disability Leadership Institute – Australians with disability tell their stories for International Day of People with Disability 2024
Megan Spindler Smith – ‘Paying the price’ Final Report a missed opportunity to alleviate cost of living crisis for people with disability
Christina Ryan – Here are the Australians of the Year for the ACT for 2025
Christina Ryan – Office for Women turns 50
Christina Ryan – ACT nominees for 2025 Australian of the Year awards named
Christina Ryan – Rugby legend in the running for ACT Australian of the Year
Shane Hryhorec – Escooters blocking footpaths at centre of disability discrimination case
Caroline Bowditch – The art of landing in your skin, TEDxCastlemaine
Christina Ryan – Revealed: who’s in line to be the ACT’s Australian of the Year for 2025
Christina Ryan – 2025 ACT Australian of the Year Nominee
Carly Findlay – New Powerd podcast Access Granted explores the intersection between disability and change politics
Christina Ryan – Revealed: who’s in line to be the ACT’s Australian of the Year for 2025
Carly Findlay – On Why Using Facial Disfigurement As A Halloween Costume Causes ‘Hurt & Harm’
Megan Spindler Smith – Death of 26yo woman who lived with ‘significant’ disabilities prompts call for safeguards
Claudia Forsberg – Costumes and trick or treating draw bulk of Halloween retail spending
Matt Warren, Megan Spindler Smith, Vicki Winfield, Shevonne Joyce, Disability Leadership Institute – Executive internship program nominated for Victorian Disability Award!