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  1. DLI Members in the news – August 2026

    Megan Spindler-Smith – How will the NDIS changes impact you?

    Megan Spindler-Smith – NDIS reforms pass Senate, thousands to lose access by 2031

    Megan Spindler-Smith – NDIS Bill Passes: Blow to People With Disability

    Megan Spindler-Smith – NDIS report warns of care shortfall

    Alastair McEwin, Megan Spindler-Smith – Diversity Festival 2026 program launches: join the celebration and conversation

    Megan Spindler-Smith – 50,000 people call for Australian Human Rights Act

    Megan Spindler-Smith – ‘Left feeling like a burden’: How the government’s new NDIS changes may impact you

    Megan Spindler-Smith – PWDA: A devastating day for people with disability as NDIS Bill passes

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Senate Rejects Automated Aged Care, PWDA Cautions NDIS

    Jane Britt, Megan Spindler-Smith – Disability advocates say parliament should “rip up” the new NDIS bill

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Minister bats away proposal for disability inspector-general

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Labor, Coalition set to pass NDIS bill, despite majority of submissions condemning the cuts

    Megan Spindler-Smith – PWDA Criticizes Senate Nod for NDIS Bill

    Megan Spindler-Smith – ‘Devastating’ NDIS overhaul to pass after Senate inquiry tables report

    Anna Boucher – Migrant worker exploitation: Why it persists and how HR can act

    Megan Spindler-Smith – The NDIS cuts are neither reasonable nor necessary

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Push for independent disability system inspector-general

    Megan Spindler-Smith – ‘Back to work’: Labor to lock in gambling, NDIS changes

    Megan Spindler-Smith – NDIS boss warns of ‘AI gold rush’ and calls for independent scheme watchdog

    Megan Spindler-Smith – “Rip it up”: PWDA urges Parliament to reject NDIS Bill and start again

    Megan Spindler-Smith – We die’: disabled voices warn against NDIS cuts

    Megan Spindler-Smith – NDIS reforms to pass

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Megan Spindler-Smith Speaks at National Press Club

    Jane Britt – PWDA: Scrap NDIS Bill, Start Over

    Gemma Lucy Smart – Nothing about us, without us: Beyond the student panel

    Alastair McEwin – ‘The bill should not pass’: Australians with disability escalate fears over NDIS cuts

    Alastair McEwin – Australia can build a better disability employment system

    Megan Spindler-Smith – New Evidence Shows Gov’t Unready for NDIS Reforms

    Tim Harte – New Members Join Policy, Equity, Diversity Panels

    Jane Britt – Thriving Kids still MIA weeks from deadline

    Megan Spindler-Smith – 4,000 NDIS service providers profiting from incorrect billing practices

    Jeramy Hope – Queensland Disability Advisory Council has been vacant since August 2025

    Jeramy Hope – People don’t want to be ‘forgotten’ amid NDIS inquiry

    Anna Boucher –  Border crossing data misleadingly used in housing and migration claim

  2. DLI members in the news – April 2026

    Ebe Ganon-Davey – Tightened eligibility and cuts to plans: what the NDIS changes mean for participants

    Christina Ryan – Canberrans with disability fear NDIS changes will cut vital support – video Dailymotion

    Ebe Ganon-Davey – What do the NDIS changes mean for participants? – Newsreel

    Christina Ryan – Canberra Residents Express Concerns Over NDIS Overhaul – Oz Arab Media

    Christina Ryan – Canberrans with disability fear NDIS changes will cut vital support – ABC News

    Megan Spindler-Smith – NDIS overhaul to cut 160,000 participants and tighten access – MSN

    Jane Britt – With a degenerative disability, Jane is unsure of her future. Now she’s fearful of NDIS cuts

    Megan Spindler-Smith – NDIS: Health Minister Mark Butler announces significant overhaul of disability scheme

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Labor’s NDIS overhaul sparks ‘fear’ as advocates blast lack of detail – The Australian

    Megan Spindler-Smith – PWDA Warns NDIS Changes May Leave People Unsupported | Mirage News

    Megan Spindler-Smith – NDIS cuts threaten everyday support – Government News

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Disability community ‘scared’ by dramatic NDIS changes as government defends overhaul

    Emma Bennison and Megan Spindler-Smith – ALERT: Disability representative organisations to respond to NDIS announcement

    Emma Bennison – Organisations available for comment on the NDIS

    Ebe Ganon-Davey – Tightened eligibility and cuts to plans: what the NDIS changes mean for participants

    Megan Spindler-Smith – “Cuts to the NDIS are cuts to ordinary lives”: PWDA launches national campaign

    Megan Spindler-Smith – PWDA Reacts to Passing of NDIS Safeguarding Bill 2025

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Dozens of workers with disability made redundant by award-winning charity Help Enterprises MSN

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Dozens of workers with disability made redundant by award-winning charity Help Enterprises ABC

    Megan Spindler-Smith – NDIS overhaul uncertainty ‘deeply unsettling’

    Gemma Smart – CAPA Welcomes Interim Report, Highlights Opportunity to Strengthen University Governance

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Crossbench MPs warn Labor against slashing NDIS growth in budget – SMH

  3. DLI Members in the news – February 2026

    Bree Hadley – Australian’s art and disability movement is gaining new momentum

    Morwenna Collett – Australia’s arts and disability movement is gaining new momentum

    Gemma Smart – Postgraduate students reports higher rates of racism, CAPA calls for structural reform

    Caroline Bowditch – Driving meaningful progress in assisted living tech

    Alastair McEwin, Megan Spindler-Smith – Disability Royal Commission: Two-Year Wrap-Up

    Ebe Ganon – Community representatives appointed to the National Autism Strategy Reference Group

    Laura Pettenuzzo – Leon and Otil Clune: This was no act of love. Autism is not a justification for murder

    Laura Pettenuzzo – This was no act of love. Autism is not a justification for murder

    Laura Pettenuzzo – As it happened: WA news on Thursday, February 5

    Colleen Furlanetto – Ruffy fire aftermath

  4. DLI Members in the news – April 2025

    Christina Ryan – ‘As critical today as it was in 1975’: a nod to the women who protect us

    Tea Rundback – Hidden Disability Sunflower Podcast

    Wendy Hill & Yenn Purkis – Changing the world with DLI CEOs

    Gemma Smart – Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained

    Scott Avery, Christina Ryan, Disability Leadership Institute – Scott Avery has devoted his life to breaking down barriers for people with disability

    Gemma Smart – Remembering Khanh Tran: How Activists Won the Fight for a Disabilities Room on Campus

    Megan Spindler-Smith – PWDA Launches Election Platform to Secure Progress for People with Disability

    Meagan Shand – Interview with Meagan Shand for International Day of People with Disability 2024

    Laura Pettenuzzo – How ‘pebbling’ helping me maintain my friendships

    Vaughn Bennison – Call to make landlords recognise assistance animals as Guide Dogs’ equals

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Disability Group Warns Against NDIS Cuts

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Disability Advocates Warns Against NDIS Cuts

    Megan Spindler-Smith – PWDA: Disability Support Funding Begins, But Gaps Remain

  5. 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

  6. 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!