Submissions are now open from individuals and organisations to be involved in the development of the Australian Design Guidelines for Access and Inclusion in Residential Development.
The Australian Human Rights Commission, in partnership with Churchill Research Fellow, Kim Samuel, and the Winston Churchill Trust, is preparing a research report on best-practice approaches to the delivery of inclusive and accessible housing.
The resulting Guidelines will be “the first of its kind developed for the Australian policy and regulatory contexts, integrating, and building on existing minimum accessibility standards within the National Construction Code, Liveable Housing Design Guidelines and NDIS Specialist Disability Accommodation requirements, applying universal design principles.”
To best address the necessary components and elements to ensure housing is accessible for the needs of PWD, involvement from individuals and organisations from the following areas of expertise are required:
Submissions close 11:59pm Tuesday 14 May 2024.
Submissions will not be made public and can be made in any of the following formats:
For more information, go to:
“Stakeholder briefing and feedback sessions have been organised throughout the consultation period. You can find out more and register for the relevant session via the following links:
Be involved in the design and implementation of the new model to ensure greater regulation of NDIS providers and workers by making a submission to the NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce.
Your involvement and contribution will help them to better understand NDIS participants’ thoughts around the NDIS Review’s proposed registration and enrolment model – including this revision’s ability to uphold the rights of people with disability.
Submissions close 11:59pm 28 April 2024.
For more information or to make a submission, go to:
https://engage.dss.gov.au/ndis-provider-and-worker-registration-taskforce/
With so much news hitting us daily, keeping up to date with information and stories can seem overwhelming.
Physical Disability Australia helps by bringing the news to you as it happens and in one location.
If you haven’t already checked out our PDA Discussion Group Facebook page, we encourage you to visit, join our community and be kept informed on issues affecting Australia’s disability community.
Be kept in the loop quickly, easily and now.
Head across to
https://www.facebook.com/groups/physicaldisabilityaustralia
and make sure that you follow us.
PDA has its finger on the pulse of Australia’s disability community.
I spoke with a friend who recently returned from an overseas holiday and, whilst he had a fantastic time away, many of his stories were peppered with the frustrations of travelling as a person living with disability.
From packing, to organising travel and accommodation, finding accessible tours and things to do, how organised do you need to be to enjoy the holiday?
Do you have any tips on how to make the most of your travel experiences?
Do you organise everything yourself or do you have a go-to travel agent who does all the groundwork for you?
What was your best holiday experience and what was your worst?
We’d love to hear your advice.
Did you know that Physical Disability Australia is a national peak Disability Peoples Organisation (DPO) that is run by people with physical disability for people with physical disability?
PDA was established in 1995 and is one of a tiny handful of Australian disability organisations that actually has a footprint in every one of our country’s States and Territories – both in terms of representation and membership.
Our organisation’s goal is to enable every Australian living with a physical disability to realise their full potential and we strive to achieve this by advocating to government, creating equal opportunities, promoting diversity and inclusion, building community and supporting and representing Australia’s physical disability community and our members.
FREE Membership is available to all Australian residents living with physical disability, their families, friends, service providers and anyone with a positive interest in supporting our country’s disability community.
It’s quick and easy to sign up. Just go to our membership page.
pda.org.au/membership/
We hope that you consider joining Physical Disability Australia and helping us to bring about positive change that will give ALL people with disability an opportunity to live an ordinary (if not extraordinary) life.
If you missed seeing PDA’s Ambassador, Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM, on The Project on Monday night, make sure that you check it out here:
“Doctor Dinesh Palipana was paralysed in an accident but always dreamed of walking again one day. Now, he’s using virtual reality to make it happen, and it could be the key to helping other paraplegics walk again.”
https://10play.com.au/theproject/news/2024/paralysed-man-using-virtual-reality-to-walk-again/tpv240318oglrj
Physical Disability Australia believes that knowledge is power and that everyone has a story to tell.
Our posts highlight news and happenings that directly impact Australia‘s disability community and our blogs, presentations and webinars ensure that we are informed and that ideas and experiences are shared.
Feedspot recently released its 35 Best Australian Disability Blogs and Websites and the PDA Team is absolutely wrapped that we were once again named in the Top 10 (https://blog.feedspot.com/australian_disability_blogs/). A big thank you to Feedspot for this recognition.
With our incredible blog contributors having their articles published on our website (https://www.pda.org.au/blog/ and covering an incredibly diverse range of topics, honest and frank conversations and subjects to educate, inform and spark discussions, we are incredibly proud and grateful for their role in this recognition.
Thank you to all of our bloggers for your efforts.
A big thank you too to all of you who have enjoyed reading our blogs, social posts and attending (or viewing) our webinars. PDA is here for you and we’re so happy to have you beside us in our journey to empower, represent, include and support our members and wider community.
If you have a blog that you would like us to feature on our blog page, please reach out to us at promotion@pda.org.au.
We’d love to share your stories and experiences.
On Sunday 4th February the second Physical Disability Awareness Day was successfully held.
We had a wonderful turnout of people at the online DisabiliTEA and had a lot of fun and laughs.
In-person events were also held at a number of Australian sites, giving people the opportunity to catch-up with friends (both old and new), to raise awareness of physical disability and to celebrate our community.
Next year we will be celebrating the third Physical Disability Awareness Day (Sunday 2nd February 2025) and we hope that you will join us to recognise and help grow this important event.
The online DisabiliTEA will continue and we hope to increase the number of live catch-up venues for people to meet face to face.
If you would like to host an event local to you, please let us know by emailing promotion@pda.org.au.
We are also looking for people interested in being part of the organising committee. If this sounds like something that you’d like to be involved in, please let us know by also emailing promotion@pda.org.au.
Together let’s make Physical Disability Awareness Day a recognised and celebrated day for everyone!
South Australian residents living with a physical disability are invited to attend an online forum to provide feedback to better understand the issues surrounding disability housing in South Australia.
Round Table Conversations, led by Krystal Matthews, will be facilitating a group forum around disability housing on behalf of the SA Government’s Housing Authority on Wednesday 28th February at 6pm SA Time.
All feedback will be anonymous, and participants will be paid $50 (in the form of a Prezzee gift card) to attend this 1 hour session.
Feedback will involve answering questions about the participant’s housing journey, including personal experiences, housing aspirations, barriers experienced, and ideas around assistance in maintaining or seeking secure and safe housing in the future.
You do not need to be in public or community housing to participate. You may still live with your parents, in a private rental, Specialist Disability Accommodation, or own your own home.
To register your interest, go to:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pduusqD8uHtVkIn2CED4wm9u73VwW60qs?os=ipad#/registration
On Sunday 4th February Physical Disability Awareness Day brought together the disability community for the second time.
Providing an opportunity to highlight, celebrate and recognise physical disability, face-to-face events were held in Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Ipswich (QLD) with an online DisabiliTEA once again proving popular and bringing together Australians from all over.
It was truly a great opportunity, a lot of fun and wonderful to see the growth in interest and support for this very important day.
Thank you so much to those who helped to organise and run these events, those who attended the events, those who supported and promoted the events and those who helped to grow and strengthen Physical Disability Awareness Day.
We look forward to running the third Physical Disability Awareness Day on Sunday 2nd February 2025 and invite everyone to get on board with helping to plan and steer the day into the future.
To register your interest in being involved in the organising committee, please email promotion@pda.org.au.
#PhysicalDisabilityAwarenessDay
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