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5-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

This recipe is my favourite sweet treat to prepare for a movie night because it is easy and goes well with salty popcorn! It only has 5 ingredients, it is glut…

A wooden tray with multicoloured rice within. A childs hand is playing in the tray. There are toys and tools around the tray.

A recipe for sensory play

This recipe is not to eat, it's to play with! Sensory play can be calming and often has the benefit of helping fine motor, and hand-eye coordination skills dep…

A young boy lining up a basketball shot

Active Kids vouchers, creative kids vouchers

As the new school year begins and extracurricular activities such as sport and art classes are offered, make sure you apply for the different vouchers, rebates…

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Adaptive Mountain Biking

Due to the barriers facing wheelchair user and others, it can be difficult to connect with nature and access off-road areas for people with a disability. Howev…

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Australian Beach Accessibility

All Australians, including the 4 million people with a disability, deserve to be able to access the beach. Check out these accessible beach options across Aust…

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Basic Biscuit Recipe

The great trick with this recipe is that you can choose a flavour to fill it with. Split it into 4 and make 4 different variations, or leave it as a plain swee…

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Basic Bliss Balls

A recipe is always fun when you can use it as sensory play. In this recipe, we promise you mess, fun, and healthy bites to snack on. There are endless variati…

A bluberry muffin drizzled with white icing and two strawberries, all on a plate.

Blueberry Muffins

This recipe was originally my Aunt's "visitor cake", the recipe you have on hand when you are expecting visitors and need to make something quickly and easily…

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Disability Inclusive Easter

Easter! In some schools, preschools, or classrooms, Easter Hat Parades and Egg Hunts are happening. Especially with younger classes. In case, here are some tip…

A young girl rides a horse, she wears a pink riding helmet. She smiles at her trainer next to her.

Do you love horses?

Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) is a volunteer organisation that provides assisted horseriding activities for people with disabilities to develop and…

A portrait image of a woman with brown hair and a blue top, she is smiling and looking a the camera. She has an invisible disability.

Dress with less stress - Project 333

The Project 333 lifestyle can make mornings stress-free and give you a renewed perspective on your wardrobe. A life-changing diagnosis and ‘can do’ attitude be…

A slice of pale yellow pie dusted with white icing sugar and with lime zest on top.

Easy as Pie

Actually known as “Impossible Pie”, this recipe is easy to make. The name came about because a runny mixture goes into the cake pan, and a 3 layered “pie” come…

A caramel coloured slice with two layers and crumbled pistachio in the icing.

Ginger Crunch

With a rather odd colour, this one surprises me that children like it - they reach for it thinking it's caramel, but are surprised by the spice-sweet ginger. I…

A pale blue hard bound book, with the words "gratitude journal" written on the front cover in a mixture of cursive and plain text rests on a timber tabletop.

Gratitude Journals

There is always something different about the start of a new year. It is like a fresh start, a new beginning, and it holds hope for the future. Let’s not hide…

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Heart your stride

It’s easy to fall behind in general fitness. You might be recovering from surgery, stuck in a desk job all day, avoiding the cold weather, or just not motivate…

A tray of hot cross buns, milk, blueberries, and butter.

Hot Cross Bun and Butter Pudding

A comfort food staple, the classic Bread and Butter Pudding gets an Easter makeover! Using Hot Cross Buns rather than slices of humble white bread gives this r…

An ice-cream Christmas Pudding, on a plate with chocolate drizzles over the top. Christmas decorations are in the background.

Ice-cream Christmas Pudding

Rather than spending hot summer days with the oven on for 4 hours while the Christmas Cake cooks, my family tradition is an easy Ice-cream Pudding.

Children, one with disability, in a circle looking down at the camera.

Inclusive School Holiday Activities Winter

We know it seems like we only just sent our kids back to school, and the holidays are here AGAIN. Our IDEAS team have contributed to help get you through, from…

A man holds a remote pointed to the TV, on his lap he has a bowl of popcorn. He is sitting on a lounge in a semi-darkened room. The light from the TV reflects from his face.

Movies with People and Characters with Disability

We all like to see someone like us or better, someone we’d like to be, on screen. We do like a hero or 3 and watching people do stuff that is beyond our neighb…

A photograph of a beach pathway with accessible matting. In the background is a blue sky with clouds.

New wheelchair friendly beaches in Australia

To enhance the beach-going experience for people with disability, beach wheelchairs are now available at a number of new locations. They provide and improve ac…