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Have you bought your ticket to Strengthening Disability Advocacy Conference 2025?

Disability Advocacy Showcase: Impacts of Advocacy in local communities

Thursday 18th September, 2025 | NAB The Arena , 700 Bourke Street, Docklands

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Disability Advisory Committee Applications are now open to join the City of Melbourne’s Disability Advisory Committee. Submit your application by 18 July 2025.

Applications are open to join the City of Melbourne’s Disability Advisory Committee. The Committee is an advisory group of people that provides strategic advice on policy and practice issues to the City of Melbourne.
Applications close 18th July.
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Three big disability issues the next government needs to address On the eve of a new parliament, these are three areas disability advocates want addressed, write Evan Young and Nas Campanella.

"It's really important we can participate in the community, just like everybody else. That really doesn't feel like a lot to ask."

[also, don't do media interviews when feeling flat...]

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Access to Justice Tour of Magistrates' Court for People with Disability People with disability are invited to join Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service for a tour at Melbourne Magistrates' Court.

Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service invites people with lived experience of disability to join them on 6th May at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court. It is an opportunity to tour the Magistrates’ Court and learn about access to justice issues. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/access-to-...

We have released a new short course! In this course you will learn about the challenges and barriers that Culturally and Linguistically Diverse people with disability face in accessing services, and what advocates can do to help overcome these barriers. t.co/2UnAW9m8UB

The Victorian Government is helping more disability workers to deliver services in regional and rural Victoria. It is doing this by providing financial support to complete a course in disability. Closing date: Friday 20th December, 2024 www.dffh.vic.gov.au/regional-dis...

Inclusive Victoria: state disability plan midway report 2022–2024 Our midway report to provide a review of our progress at the halfway point of the Inclusive Victoria: state disability plan (2022–2026).

DFFH has released their midway report on Inclusive Victoria – our state’s disability plan for 2022-2026. The report gives us a snapshot of how Victoria is progressing towards a more inclusive and accessible society for people with disability. www.vic.gov.au/state-disabi...