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  1. DLI Members in the news – December 2024

    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

  2. DLI members in the news – September 2024

    Megan Spindler Smith – Disability advocates voice concerns about new NDIS provider regulations

    Morwenna Collett – Australian Women in Music Conference, First Nations Women’s Music Program + Awards Ceremony & Concert

    Carly Findlay – Writing Your Own Piece with Carly Findlay and Andy Jackson

    Rosie Putland – I don’t know how i feel (podcast)

    Kate Fiedler – Community Inclusion

    Shane Hryhorec – Disability Advocate Takes City of Yarra to VCAT Over Footpath Accessibility

    Megan Spindler Smith – PWDA: Co-Design, Choice Key to Registration Success

    Alastair McEwin – NDIS ‘navigator’ plan could save up to $5b

    Daniel Stubbs – Weeding out the bad apples

    Katie Kelly – I’ve really enjoyed the leadership and advocacy coming out of the Australian team

    Gemma Smart – BlakOut Issue 2 launch reportback

    Shane Hryhorec – ‘I nearly vomited’: Warning after ABC star’s horror accident

    Shane Hryhorec – ABC presenter’s horrific bathroom incident prompts warning to travellers

    Katie Kelly – Katie Kelly on Classification

    Katie Kelly – Paralympics Day 9 Wrap

    Megan Spindler Smith – PWDA responds to NDIS Minister Bill Shorten’s retirement from politics

    Megan Spindler Smith – Outgoing Shorten promises ‘green shoots’ for NDIS

    Belle Owen – Vision Australia podcast (transport standards)

    Katie Kelly – Paralympics Day 8 Wrap

    Katie Kelly – I’ve never known anyone who trains as hard and as consistently as Lauren

    Katie Kelly – Paralympic Wrap Day 7

    Katie Kelly – It’s vital to take that time to process the emotion

    Simon Darcy – Paris Adds New Chapter to Paralympic History

    Lisa Cox – Unstereotype Alliance Australia advocates for progressive disability representation in media

    Lisa Cox – Unstereotype Alliance calls for disability representation in advertising beyond the Paralympics

    Katie Kelly – There is almost a process of grief

    Katie Kelly – Paralympic Wrap Day 5

    Katie Kelly – She can become one of Australia’s most acclaimed Triathletes

    Megan Spindler Smith – 3CR breakfast program

    Katie Kelly – Paralympic Day 4 Wrap Up

    Katie Kelly – They’ll be getting so edgy wanting to get out and race

    Emma Bennison – After ‘generations’ of discrimination, people with disability hope the Aviation White Paper will lead to change

    Katie Kelly – Paralympics Wrap Day 3

    Katie Kelly – The team would be absolutely devastated

    Katie Kelly – Steelers looking for redemption in Paris

    Katie Kelly – Day 2 Wrap of Paralympics

    Bailey Wemyss – Rental advocates warn heat-related deaths will increase if Queensland regulations aren’t tightened

    Katie Kelly – Day 1 Wrap of Paralympics with Ned Hall

    Katie Kelly – The Conversation Hour What does an Athlete look like anyway?

  3. 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

  4. DLI members in the news – September 2023

    El Gibbs – Will history repeat itself

    Lisa Cox, Emma Olivier – A Call for Inclusion: Aussie Women with Disabilities Speak Up for Better Media Representation

    Lisa Cox – New campaign to lift disability representation in advertising

    Lisa Cox – Juttima isn’t a typical fitness influencer. She’s making people with disability more visible

    Shane Hryhorec – Port Adelaide nightclub is sinfully good

    El Gibbs – Micheline Lee quarterly essay review (paywalled)

    Lisa Cox – Mavens launches volume 2 of magazine alongside panel event

    Ryan Smith – All visitors, all experiences: Destination Gold Coast wraps first Accessible Tourism roadshow