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  1. DLI Members in the news – November 2024

    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

    Lisa Cox – Unstereotype Alliance Australia to present Disability in Advertising panel at Bus Stop Film’s Driving Change Disability Employment Summit

    Lisa Cox – Unstereotype Alliance Australia to unveil Unilever, Mars Wrigley-backed research at disability employment summit

    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!

  2. DLI members in the news – August 2024

    Jane Britt – For a deafblind woman like me, the NDIS changes are a blow. I fear for my future.

    Cat Walker – ‘Last-minute homework vibes’: Inside Shorten’s NDIS reforms

    Megan Spindler Smith – An NDIS reform bill has passed through parliament, but disability advocates want it scrapped

    Mark Pietsch – SBS News

    Megan Spindler Smith – PWDA Devastated by NDIS Amendment Bill Passage

    Carol Taylor – Quadriplegic fashion designer axed from company she thought she ‘co-owned’

    Katie Kelly – The path to the Paralympics

    Disability Leadership Institute – Why employers need more data about disability in their workplace

    Debbie Heron – Appointments to the Administrative Review Tribunal and Administrative Appeals Tribunal

    Caroline Bowditch – Roadmap to Success – Learning Module 1, Finding Your Mentor

    Katie Kelly – Aspiring Olympians get help to access top level coaching

    Sarah Langston – The Deep Dive, Helping out Neurodivergent Parents through The ANPA.

    Katie Kelly – New England athletes on path to Olympics

    Lisa Stafford – Griffith awarded more than third of Future Fellowships

    Christina Ryan – The disability royal commission demanded extensive change. Are the government responses big enough?

    Megan Spindler Smith – PWDA Responds to Gov’s Disability Royal Commission Reply

    Lisa Cox – ABC, Netflix, Screen NSW and Unilever partner with Bus Stop Films for the Inaugural Driving Change Summit in November

    Shane Hryhorec – Travel blogger Shane Hryhorec helps wheelchair users to explore the world, but not without ‘challenges’

    Christina Ryan – Government reveals response to disability RC

    Akii Ngo – ‘My existence is a resistance’: Akii Ngo on non-tokenistic representation and intersectionality

    Yasmine Gray – Breaking barriers: Yasmine’s journey to revolutionise accessible tourism

  3. DLI members in the news – July 2024

    Katie Kelly – Is this the year you enter the Casino Fun Run?

    Shane Hryhorec – Meet the leaders in this year’s 40 Under 40

    Akii Ngo – Wheelchair user calls for accessibility standards after Jetstar apology for ‘unfortunate accident’

    Akii Ngo – Jetstar apologises to wheelchair user who fell at Adelaide Airport while being pushed by a staff member

    Shane Hryhorec – Aussie traveller’s 2.5 hour airport ‘trauma’ leaves him ‘worried’ about flying again

    Shane Hryhorec – Changing the game for people with disabilities

    Colleen Furlanetto – AV Community Advocates Visit Kyneton And Bendigo

    Tricia Malowney – Equity in cervical screening webinar

    Lisa Cox – How a chance meeting with Birdsnest’s Jane Cay in a shopping centre car park sparked this founder’s mission to make advertising more inclusive

    Carly Findlay – Carly Findlay reveals she is battling cancer after hysterectomy: ‘Taking it one day at a time’

    Yenn Purkis – Step Up Step down mental health facility birthday

    Caroline Bowditch – Queering the Collection through pride and prejudice

    Megan Spindler Smith – Reflections on my first week as Deputy CEO

    Vaughn Bennison – Disability Voices Tasmania losing all employees as funding ends

    Akii Ngo – New Advisory Council members to strengthen independent advice on Australia’s Disability Strategy

  5. DLI members in the news – December 2023/January 2024

    Melissa Hale – Melissa Hale is changing the game for deaf women in cricket

    Lisa Stafford – Disabled Travellers Face Discrimination: Seeking Change and Redress

    Shane Hryhorec – Glenelg’s accessibility beach mats open 24/7 across the next two weeks

    Lisa Stafford – Travellers with disability often face discrimination. What should change and how to complain.

    Lisa Cox – Representation shouldn’t be rocket science (paywalled)

    Shane Hryhorec – Beaches that roll out welcome mat for the less mobile

    Caroline Bowditch – Alter State igniting hope through Disability Leadership

    Shane Hryhorec – Disability advocates call for government investment to improve Australian beach accessibility

    Lisa Cox – Diversity in advertising and the high fashion glass ceiling 

    Shane Hryhorec – First-ever all-inclusive & accessible membership-based gym opens in SA

    Shane Hryhorec – Australia’s first inclusive gym opens in Port Adelaide

     

    December 2023

    Megan Spindler Smith – CEO internship, a first of its kind learning experience for all

    Kate Taylor – Speed dating with an inclusive twist

    Gemma Smart – CAPA board passes motion removing SUPRA voting rights

    Frances Kupke- Smith – Beyond barriers: Advocate sheds light on the challenges at disability expo

    Christina Ryan – The Drum

    Akii Ngo – Birthday party part of the search for inclusivity

     

    Jane Britt – Things I wish I’d known before an emergency — Notes on the Brisbane floods from someone who’s deafblind

    Disability Leadership Institute – Disabled voices leading the national conversation

    Tricia Malowney – Kinetic invests in enhanced accessibility in Melbourne

    Carol Taylor – The rise of adaptive fashion

    Disability Leadership Institute, Christina Ryan – People with disability recognised for making an impact

    Disability Leadership Institute – ABC features stories for, by and about Australians living with disability