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#Disability panel on #QandA includes 3 actually disabled experts, Paralympic gold medallist Dylan Alcott OAM, actress Kiruna Stamell, & lawyer Graeme Innes AM.
Catia Malaquias (lawyer/ NFP board member) & Bruce Bonyhady AO (Director Disability Institute) have disabled children.
NDIS reforms are welcome but there are many gaps in this early stage. For example, people with non-apparent disabilities struggle. Or to contribute to society, people of short stature need modifications, but they're being told they don't qualify for support under NDIS. #QandA
NDIS were offered a place on the panel but declined. #QandA
While NDIS needs to engage with the public & invest in education for practitioners & wider society, Graeme Innes notes 15% of NDIS staff are disabled - far higher than average for most government agencies (2.8% or 2.9%)
NDIS has problems but it is the opportunity of a lifetime we must seize as a nation. - Graeme Innes #QandA
NDIS - support for people with mental health issues is leading to 'almost unbearable pressure for this scheme.' - Bruce Bonyhady #QandA
Audience member Fiona has a BA, Masters & postgraduate diploma cannot get a graduate position in government departments. How can disabled people get a fair go in the job marketplace, even when they are overqualified, let alone starting out in their early careers? #QandA
Audience member Ben asks: why do mainstream schools exclude disabled students, telling them to go to special schools rather than helping them belong? #QandA
Children with intellectual disability are being pushed out of mainstream system. - Catia Malaquias
Catia Malaquias asks: what does it take to get this right? She notes Italy is celebrating 40 years of closing special schools. Canada has other examples of inclusive schooling.
It is a fundamental human right for disabled kids to have a choice about their schooling. #QandA
Bullying, prejudice and exclusion of disabled children in mainstream schools is reflective of what happens in workplaces. But by law workplaces are supposed to be inclusive. Schools need to uphold the same inclusions. - Dylan Alcott #QandA
'Let's just deliver what was the great hope of four or five years ago.' - Graeme Innes
NDIS is a great concept, let's make it work. - Kiruna Stamell
'We need funding locked in and legislated' - Innes #QandA
TW DFV: young audience member notes media reports on Margaret River murder-suicide changed when it was revealed the children killed were autistic. Media was sympathetic as if autistic kids are a burden. How do we change this dangerous perception? https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/grandfather-suspected-as-seven-shot-dead-in-wa/news-story/d208efd6c68132531cefe11582c0934b … #QandA
Media portrayal of autistic people as a 'burden' perpetuates a negative cycle, especially by excluding the voices of actually autistic people. - Catia Malaquias, recommending this @BackgroundBrief report to explore media & societal ableism: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-23/when-carers-kill/9894514 … #QandA
Social housing and other options for independent living for disabled people is important not just to autonomy for disabled people and parents, but also also has implications in other realms, such as when disabled people want to settle down with their partners. #QandA
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