During the height of the pandemic, people with disability felt they had been forgotten and were not a priority. In the vaccine rollout, the government is repeating its past mistakes.

Independent assessments were meant to make access to the NDIS fairer. But disability groups disagree and want them stopped.

The UN has twice called on Australia to dismantle its indefinite detention system for people with cognitive impairments and mental illness, which disproportionately affects Indigenous people.

The Hastings Center in the US honours Jackie Leach Scully, Director of the Disability Innovation Institute at UNSW.

My work is very much focused on contributing to bettering the lives of people living with a disability, says UNSW’s Professor Iva Strnadová. 

 

The Disability Innovation Institute at UNSW (DIIU) is in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

New research shows almost 20% of families caring for children with special needs were unable to buy essential medication during coronavirus.

A conversation between Harvard Law School’s first deafblind graduate and the world’s first blind newsreader covers everything from advocacy to finding friends and dancing.

Human rights need to be protected during the coronavirus pandemic, leading academics say.