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Home Modifications

For safety, comfort or adaptive living, there are many reasons why people want to make changes to their home. Often the uncertainty of how to or whether they’r…

How Coronavirus is impacting the disability sector

Australians living with a disability and their carers are some of the most at-risk groups when it comes to Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Executive…

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How to maintain healthy habits during COVID-19 with food and exercise

Feeling overwhelmed? Is all the information giving you a headache? Is your nutrition and exercise routine the first thing to go when life gets a little bi…

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How to protect yourself and others from COVID-19

Here are some simple ways to take care of yourself and your community even though COVID-19 restrictions have stopped.

How to Wear a Mask - AUSLAN

Dr Jean Fizzell from NSW Health outlines how to put on and take off a mask safely with Auslan translations and closed captions.

Human Rights - Women with Disabilities Australia

In this video, Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) members talk about what human rights are and why they are important.

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I want to know more about Short Term Accommodation.

We regularly check with our users what you would like to know more about? One recent response was “Information on access to short term accommodation packages f…

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IDEAS Has A Say: Disability Royal Commission - Emergency Planning and Response

The Disability Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability is hearing from witnesses this week via a livestr…

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In This Together

This week, we celebrate National Sorry Day on May 26 and National Reconciliation Week from May 27 to 3 June. NRW starts and ends by commemorating two significa…

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Incontinence tips for travel

Incontinence is no laughing matter and can cause anxiety for anyone who is affected. The Continence Foundation has free information for people affected by inco…

Media Release

Increase Disability Support Pension now to deal with COVID-19

People with disability who receive the Disability Support Pension (DSP) urgently need access to the increased Coronavirus Supplement of $550 per fortnight, c…

Media release

Independent fire emergency information for people with disabilities

Unprecedented bushfires burning across millions of hectares across Australia this summer have caused serious injury, death and the destruction of homes, towns…

IDEAS Media Release

Information Sharing as Market Stewardship in the NDIS report

We’ve just launched the report ‘Information Sharing as Market Stewardship in the NDIS’ and are pleased to be able to share this critical researc…

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Invisible Disabilities

Being verbally abused by random strangers in car parks shouldn't be a thing people with disabilities should have to deal with daily. But it is.

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Jayne McClure - living with MS

When I first started this project I had little idea of what was required of me, but somehow it has formed into something that makes me feel proud. I worked in…

John Walsh - More than Independent Assessments

In this episode, Disability Done Different speak candidly with John Walsh. John is a former NDIA board member, and one of the key designers of the NDIS. He tal…

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Kev's Story

We want to share some of the ways our PossABLE Advocates have supported, changed lives and advocated for people with disability. This is *Kev's Story.

Know your rights: Disability discrimination

Disability discrimination is when a person with a disability is treated less favourably than a person without the disability in the same or similar circumstanc…

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Local Area Coordinators, Support Coordinators and Plan Management Explained

If you are new to the NDIS, chances are, you might have questions about the role that Local Area Coordinators and Support Coordinators have. In this article, w…

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Making Book Week inclusive - a List of Ideas

It's Book Week across Australia soon, August 21 - 27th 2021, and we take a look at books that include children with a disability plus tips on making the…

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