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As part of PDA’s 30th year celebrations, a new look was commissioned for both our logo and a refresh of our website to meet our needs and strengthen our organisation as we move forwards. Working with our project partners, FivebyFive, over the past eight months, we are now proud to officially launch the new website...

Joint Statement by Disability Representative Organisations Tuesday 3 February Australia’s Disability Representative Organisations (DROs) acknowledge an agreement has been reached between the Federal, State and Territory Governments regarding hospital funding and disability supports, including the Thriving Kids initiative, that will have implications for the supports people with disability have access to across their lifespan and...

Disability Representative Organisations acknowledge the passage of the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026 (Cth) and the additional protections it introduces to address serious forms of hate and extremism in Australia. The event of 14 December 2025 targeting the Jewish community at Bondi beach was an abhorrent act of hate...

November 6, 2025 We are deeply concerned by the schedule 5 amendment to the Social Security and Other Legislative Amendments (Technical Change No 2) Bill 2025 that gives police new powers to advise the government to stop a person’s Centrelink payment. Stopping a person’s payment before any court process has occurred risks leaving people without...

Physical Disability Australia is deeply concerned with recent changes made by South Australia’s Access Taxis and their new policy to remove customers’ abilities to request specific drivers. Our understanding behind this policy change is related to a lack of Access Cab drivers on the road when needed and a desire to share the load to ensure drivers have more reason...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this release contains names and references to people who have died. New court filing has exposed a pattern of fatal restraints for First Nations people with disability that has been hidden. This information surfaced after court documents revealed a young Aboriginal man died of acute respiratory failure,...

JOINT STATEMENT Physical Disability Australia, in collaboration with other Disability Representative Organisations has released a Joint Statement in response to the Australian Government’s recent surprise announcement around changes to the NDIS. NDIS Minister Mark Butler’s speech on Wednesday came as a major surprise to the disability community and DROs. Whilst we welcome the investment in...

PDA’s CEO, Jeremy Muir, recently wrote to VIC Minister for Transport Infrastructure/Public and Active Transport, The Hon Gabrielle Williams MP, voicing concern over accessibility failings of Metro Tunnel stations. Flagged as a major concern by PDA’s VIC Director, Robert Wise, and VIC Associate Director, Sean Tyrell, safety and accessibility ramifications of uneven heights between platforms...

Written by Jeremy Muir, PDA’s CEO As the CEO of PDA and as a NDIS participant I acknowledge the complexities and difficulties facing the NDIA and those participants who have been adversely affected by the NDIS reform processes. In saying that, I would also like to acknowledge that the NDIA is not one person and...

Disability representative organisations (DROs) call for immediate action to address the National Disability Insurance Agency’s conduct to remove a person with disability access to NDIS supports in apparent retaliation for expressing their views on social media about the Scheme. In a Joint Statement, DROs are calling out the NDIA’s actions to remove a person with...

June 17, 2025 The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Review recommended shifting the basis for setting a budget from individual support items to a “whole of person” level, supported by new needs assessment processes. This year, the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is working to design and test a new way of gathering information about...

Let’s make it plainly clear, Disability Royal Commission Recommendation 5.6 stated: The Australian Government should establish: Labor has just had an outstanding federal election win, gaining a huge majority. Surely this is the perfect opportunity to implement the above DRC recommendations? If not now, then when? The DRC also recommended: People with disability should be recruited...