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2025-12-11

Navy officers breaking ground, seeking Winter Paralympic Games selection
By Elizabeth Wright

It has been 20 years since Australia sent a biathlete to the Winter Paralympics, but two serving Navy personnel are hoping to change this.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-11/nav

#ParalympicGames #Sport #Biathlon #CrossCountry #PeopleWithDisability #DefenceForces #ElizabethWright

2025-12-10

Climate crisis threatens disabled Australians' access to nature

From bushfires and decreasing air quality to flooding and erosion, climate change is threatening our relationship with nature, and people with disability are being disproportionately impacted.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-10/cli

#DisabilityAccess #ClimateChange #Hiking #Sport #BeachHolidays #PeopleWithDisability #Disabilities #Health

2025-12-09

Heywire winners bring 'raw, honest storytelling' of life in the regions

Thirty-five young people have been named 2026 ABC Heywire winners for the bravery and authenticity of their life stories.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-10/abc

#Teenagers #CommunityandSociety #RegionalCommunities #Racism #PeopleWithDisability #GenderIdentity #CulturalIdentity

2025-12-06

Jael is Deaf and blind. Here's how she goes about her day
By Evan Young, Nas Campanella, and Danielle Bonica

Living with vision impairment throws up many challenges. Being Deaf on top of that requires you to go to even greater lengths just to fit in with the modern world. This is how one Deafblind woman does it.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-07/a-d

#PeopleWithDisability #Disabilities #EvanYoung #NasCampanella # #DanielleBonica

2025-12-05

Deaf residents in aged care left without basic support services
By Adelaide Miller

One Deaf woman living with dementia has been without basic care services for two years. Advocates warn her story represents a much larger problem.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-06/dea

#PublicHealth #HealthPolicy #AgedCare #PeopleWithDisability #DisabilityAccess #AdelaideMiller

2025-12-05

Runner wept when police returned stolen specialised gear
By Charlotte Wilkes

When Mick Marshall's car was stolen, he was more concerned about what was inside the vehicle than the car itself, and the training he would likely miss.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-05/sto

#Crime #PeopleWithDisability #CharlotteWilkes

2025-12-04

This 18-year-old is the first badged netball umpire in a wheelchair
By Alice Walker

Brodie Taylor has changed the game of netball by overturning disability preconceptions to become the first person in a wheelchair to attain national netball umpiring accreditation.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-05/bro

#Netball #PeopleWithDisability #Sport #RegionalCommunities #AliceWalker

2025-12-04

Living with ADHD can feel like fighting your own brain. Here's how I manage it
By Mark du Potiers

International Day of People with Disability scholar Mark du Potiers shares how attention deficit hyperactivity disorder impacts him day-to-day and what he does to make life more manageable.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-05/how

#ADHD #PeopleWithDisability #MarkduPotiers

2025-12-04

People with disability 'blossom like a flower' on community radio
By Elsie Lange

A community radio station in Alice Springs is becoming a breeding ground for new, diverse voices by giving people with disability a platform to broadcast.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/com

#PeopleWithDisability #DisabilityAccess #Radio #ElsieLange

2025-12-03

Parents question post-operative care after son's sudden death
By Nadia Mitsopoulos, Alicia Hanson , and Emma Wynne

The parents of a young man with a neuromuscular disease who died seven days after spinal surgery say they have serious concerns about the post-operative care he was provided at Royal Perth Hospital.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-03/per

#HealthcareFacilities #PeopleWithDisability #DiseasesandDisorders #NadiaMitsopoulos #AliciaHanson # #EmmaWynne

2025-12-02

Smiling in class. Exhausted at home: Why autistic teens struggle in sport
By Daniel Miles

Hayley masks their struggles so well in dance class that teachers can't tell. But when they get home, they collapse — sometimes missing days of school.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-03/res

#DisabilityAccess #PeopleWithDisability #Dance #Sport #ScientificResearch #AutismSpectrumDisorder #DanielMiles

2025-12-02

How music venues and stages are becoming more accessible for people with disability
By Georgia Scott

Going to a concert can be hard for people with disability. But sensory concerts and bringing lived experience on stage can open up this world for everyone.

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-02/mak

#Music #PeopleWithDisability #ClassicalMusic #GeorgiaScott

2025-12-01

'I never wanted speech therapy': Deaf man incensed by NDIS recommendation
By Mary Lloyd and Nas Campanella

Disability advocates say cuts to Deaf participants' NDIS funding is a "systemic" problem that reflects a belief that Deafness can be "fixed".

abc.net.au/news/2025-12-02/ndi

#PeopleWithDisability #GovernmentPolicy #Disabilities #MaryLloyd #NasCampanella

2025-11-29

Terminated Bedford staff in limbo, with millions owed in entitlements
By Angelique Donnellan

Former Bedford staff have said they are owed millions of dollars in entitlements after they were made redundant when the disability employment provider entered voluntary administration earlier this year.

abc.net.au/news/2025-11-29/bed

#Disabilities #Work #PeopleWithDisability #Unions #StateandTerritoryGovernment #AngeliqueDonnellan

2025-11-28

Golf and disability communities to come together in 'world-first' tournament
By Sarah Richards

People with intellectual disabilities will have roles in planning, promoting, preparing, and supporting professionals at a charity golf tournament that is the first of its kind.

abc.net.au/news/2025-11-29/que

#Golf #PeopleWithDisability #SarahRichards

2025-11-27

What Amy and Estella want you to know about living with disability
By Dianne King

Nineteen-year-old Estella Jones lives with a disability in her hometown of Tennant Creek, where she loves baking brownies, singing karaoke and spending time with good friends.

abc.net.au/news/2025-11-28/est

#PeopleWithDisability #DisabilityAccess #Family #DianneKing

Robert SanscartierSnoro
2025-11-27

“There is limited access to emergency services and inadequate infrastructure,” he says, adding that even shelters designed for disaster response are often inaccessible. The consequences, he notes, are dire

observer24.com.na/disability-a

2025-11-19

Bedford supplier says he has not 'received a cent' of $60,000 owed
By Josephine Lim

Creditors of disability employer Bedford are concerned they will not see money repaid, as the company prepares for sale to secure its future.

abc.net.au/news/2025-11-19/bed

#PeopleWithDisability #Work #JosephineLim

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