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  1. DLI Members in the news – March 2025

    Christina Ryan – Building Australia’s First Disability Leadership Network

    Megan Spindler-Smith – Federal Budget week begins

    Nicole Sommer – Nation-leading right to a healthy environment takes effect in ACT

    Lauren Carter – A Conversation on Accessibility, Equity, and Inclusion at Swinburne

    Shane Hryhorec – Just the ticket: Adelaide advocate championing disability travel

    Katie Kelly – Beyond the Games podcast: supporting athletes to thrive in sport and life

    Belle Owen – Accessibility changes to national building code ‘exciting’, but disability advocates say more

    Shane Hryhorec – Government to make beaches, parks more accessible

  2. DLI Members in the news – February 2025

    Shane Hryhorec – No more excuses in bid to boost beach access for all

    Caroline Bowditch – On the move: latest arts sector appointments

    Ryan Smith – Contributor: Ryan Smith

    Yenn Purkis – Spreading empathy through interactive training

    Katie Kelly – Mayor Tom Tate responds to fresh calls for ocean pools on the Gold Coast

    Megan Spindler-Smith – NDIS Reforms Tighten, States Abandon Disabled

    Ryan Smith – The future of accessibility is personal

    Shane Hryhorec – Aussie council’s major crackdown amid common e-bike gripe: ‘Huge issue’

    Caroline Bowditch – New works wanted: Melbourne Fringe Festival announces major commission opportunities for 2025

    Emma Bennison – Tasmanian blind woman felt ‘abandoned’ in Melbourne Airport by staff, calling for better disability support

    Emma Bennison – Statement – Jetstar and Emma Bennison

    Emma Bennison – Jetstar to improve passenger service after blind passenger left stranded in airport lounge

    Emma Bennison – Discusses recent experience with Jetstar

    Christina Ryan – Australia’s Leaders Unite to Launch International Women’s Month with UN Women Australia

    Christina Ryan – Albanese and Dutton speak on gender equality ahead of International Women’s Day

    Megan Spindler-Smith – PWDA condemns QLD Govt’s Trans Health Ban

    Heidi La Paglia – NAS – ABC Drive Hobart Radio

    Emma Bennison – Festivale, artificial intelligence applications

    Lisa Cox – QUT Community Recognised with National Honours

  3. DLI Members in the news – January 2025

    Yasmine Gray – 10+ ways to welcome the Year of the Snake in Canberra

    Briar Harte – How intersectionality impacts people with a disability – and what we can do about it

    Lisa Cox – Australia Day Honours awarded

    Christina Ryan – Gold Coast Disability Expo’s post

    Heidi La Paglia Reid – Questions remain over how a national first strategy will work in Tasmania

    Megan Spindler Smith – Concerns new autism plan may overlook children who need help

    Megan Spindler Smith – Disability experts are cautious of the recently announced National Autism Strategy

    Megan Spindler Smith – Worries autism plan may overlook children who need help

    Megan Spindler Smith – Australia Just Got Its First National Autism Strategy, Here’s What It Means

    Megan Spindler Smith – Autism Strategy Welcomed, Success Hinges on Funding

    Ebe Ganon – AUDIO: Advocates champion ‘historic’ national autism strategy

    Vaughn Bennison – Australian government expands disability representation with NDIA appointments

    Megan Spindler Smith – NDIS access fails at first financial hurdle for families with disability

    Vaughn Bennison – Bill Shorten will leave the NDIS in the hands of people with disability

    Megan Spindler Smith – Illawarra man’s death highlights ‘profound human rights violation’

    Claudia Forsberg – Support services see cost-of-living crisis driving Christmas stress

    Megan Spindler Smith – Eliminating Restrictive Practices In Australia

  4. 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

  5. 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!

  6. DLI members in the news – October 2024

    Shane Hryhorec – Top cop nominated for Australian of the Year after family tragedy

    Jodie Haigh – They want to feel supported: why so many women feel buying a home is crucial

    Laura Pettenuzzo – Ableist language has no place in parliament (or anywhere)

    Claudia Forsberg – Authorities warn against feeding kangaroos after bin-diving wildlife rescues

    Megan Spindler Smith – Voting access for Queenslanders with a disability ‘not sufficient’, advocates say

    Kat Reed – Disability IS an election issue: Gender, anti-violence and families

    Kat Reed – Disability IS an election issue: Housing

    Carly Findlay – Vote Your Fave Aussie Into The National Portrait Gallery

    Christina Ryan – SDAC 2024 keynote

    Dwayne Fernandes – Australian Space Diversity Alliance announces inaugural National Committee

    Kelly Schulz – New Consumer Group To Shape Future Of Eye Research

    Claudia Forsberg – Aussies saving money by cycling

    Claudia Forsberg – Australian families switching to cycling as car-running costs rise

    Megan Spindler Smith – From tarot cards to gaming therapy: The treatments no longer covered by the NDIS

    Megan Spindler Smith – Flawed Process Undermines Transitional Support Lists

    Alastair McEwin – Australian Disability Enterprises can pay workers a fraction of the minimum wage. What place do they have in today’s society?

    Shane Hryhorec – Urgent call for strata regulation reform in South Australia: Homeowners face massive repairs and legal battles amid rising apartment issues

    Ebe Ganon – Are universities doing enough to support neurodivergent students?