The NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) is a great step forward for the disabled in Australia and it will hopefully dramatically improve the lives of the profoundly disabled. The legislation does need some changes and that is why the Senate is holding an enquiry. I made a submission to the Senate Enquiry into the Draft [...]
Dale Reardon’s Submission on the National Disabillity Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Bill
February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Good Story on the Disabled Taking Charge of Their Own Organisations
February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I would like to recommend that you check out this web page and linked video story on how Arts Access Australia has lead the way with their non-disabled CEO resigning and helping a disabled (blind) person take over the CEO position. I personally don’t think disability service organisations or disability advocacy organisations can achieve their [...]
Expression of Interest for employment with the National Disability Insurance Scheme Launch Transition Agency
February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I hope this information will be of assistance and lead to increased employment of the disabled. Expression of Interest for employment with the National Disability Insurance Scheme Launch Transition Agency Do you have a disability or have you worked with or supported someone with a disability? Do you want to work for an organisation designed [...]
Disability is no bar to good parenting
December 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I want to bring the issue of parenting by disabled parents to your attention. It seems that unfortunately disabled parents are presumed to be incompetent, inadequate or not good enough by the courts and authorities. This is simply unacceptable – if the disabled parents are not coping then they should be provided with help and [...]
British Airways – BA – has completely unreasonable and unfair policies for changing a booking
December 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We have recently had a bad experience with British Airways and want to warn everyone about BA policies and how they don’t want to assist a customer even when it would cost them nothing. We booked a return flight for 2 people from Sydney to London return with a “free” side trip to Venice return [...]
An Excellent Campaign to Help with Employment of the Disabled
October 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The unemployment rate among the disabled is a real concern and the Government is struggling to know what to do about it. I have just learnt of an excellent American campaign to help the situation regarding employment of the disabled. I wish we had a campaign like this in Australia to help the disabled and [...]
Tender to conduct an audit of disability research in Australia
June 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Thought some of my visitors and readers might be interested in this tender. If you are interested in working jointly or having me involved somehow then please get in touch with me. I am very interested in disability issues and research. Here are the details I received from the Government: Tender to conduct an audit [...]
Spotify launches in Australia but discriminates against the blind and vision impaired
May 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Spotify streaming music service has just launched in Australia. This should be cause for celebration and probably is great news if you aren’t blind or vision impaired. The problem is that the software employed by Spotify is not accessible to blind and vision impaired computer users who use screen readers to use their computer [...]
Facebook Voting is Inaccessible on The Voice Australia TV Show
May 22, 2012 By 1 Comment
Just a quick update in this post as the matter is still under way. The Voice Australia is a very popular TV Show on Channel 9. They even have a vision impaired singer participating who has RP. After the first live show, they announced that you could vote on Facebook as a free voting option [...]
Trial of audio description for television on ABC TV
February 25, 2012 By 1 Comment
Hi All I was excited to see the recent announcement by Senator Conroy about the trial of audio description on ABC TV. This is something BCA, and their partners, have been advocating for over the past few years. Please see below the BCA media release congratulating the Australian Government. I have also placed below the [...]
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