People with Disability Australia Incorporated

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Issues & Campaigns

Supporting PWD

There are many ways to support us:

Make a Donation Becoming a Disability Rights Defender Volunteering and student placement Becoming a financial member

PWD has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

Welcome to PWD

Announcements

Queensland: The Best Project

The Best is a workshop program, a party and a social action to make Brisbane a more accessible city. It is being coordinated by Melbourne artist and PWD Member Thomas Banks, in collaboration with Brisbane based Contact Inc. and Toronto based Mammalian Diving Reflex.
The Best Project involves a seven week workshop program for under 30’s with disability. The workshops will explore topics of dating, love, romance, sexuality and intimacy and participants will work together as a group to create a series of actions and activities which would happen at a party. This Party will then take place in the last week of March and members of the public will be invited to attend and explore the themes presented by workshops participants.

Contact Inc. are looking for more participants to join this project – so if you are under 30, identify as having a disability and are keen to create a party where we share ideas and moments of dating, love, romance, sexuality and intimacy please email Thomas Banks on thomas@contact.org.au or ring the office (07) 3255-3900
Workshops will start Thursday 9 February 2012
The Party will take place in the last week of March – dates and venue to be confirmed
For more info about Contact Inc check out www.contact.org.au and info about Mammalian Diving Reflex check out www.mammalian.ca

Jetstar to continue second class treatment of people with disability

People with Disability Australia (PWD) joins the growing call for changes to Australia’s anti-discrimination laws following the Federal Court’s decision last Friday, which has left Jetstar’s discriminatory two wheelchair policy intact and a passenger with disability, Ms Sheila King with $20,000 to pay in court costs.
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Fact and Fiction in King v Jetstar Airways

“A Federal Court decision last week has demonstrated a significant bias against people with a disability when seeking enforcement of Commonwealth disability discrimination legislation. In finding that Jetstar was entitled to discriminate against passengers using wheelchairs because of an unproven cost, the court failed to recognise the cost of exclusion to people with a disability, effectively rendering anti-discrimination laws useless.” - Naomi Anderson, published 16 January 2012

Have Your Say - City of Sydney Draft Footpath Gardening Policy

The City of Sydney is currently exhibiting a draft policy which will allow residents and businesses to put planter boxes on the public footpath and undertake gardening on nature strips located outside their properties within the City of Sydney local government area. The City of Sydney is seeking feedback from the community on the policy until 13 February 2012.
This is an opportunity for PWD members to comment on the policy and draw attention to potential issues around footpath accessibility.
Copies of the draft policy are available in Braille and Large Print formats at City of Sydney Neighbourhood Service Centres (locations listed on the City's website) and at the One Stop Shop at Town Hall House. Organisations or individuals who would like their own Braille or Large Print copy of the draft policy can contact Mark Driver by phone: 02 9265 9385, email: mdriver@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au or by mail: Mark Driver, Park and Recreation Planner, Level 12 Town Hall House, 456 Kent Street, Sydney 2000.
Further information and copies of the draft policy can be downloaded from the 'On Exhibition' section of the City of Sydney Council website.
We encourage people with disability to review the draft policy and provide feedback to City of Sydney Council.
For further information on how PWD works with local government to encourage open and accessible consultation, contact Sam French samanthaf@pwd.org.au or Ph: 9370 3100

Travel Limited: A Report into Inaccessible transport in Australia

Australia for All have recently published a research paper on inaccessible transport in Australia. The paper, Travel Limited: A Report into Inaccessible Transport in Australia, details the results of a survey conducted in 2009 by Australia for All, which looks at non-compliance amongst the Transport Industry Companies.

Click here to read this report on the Australia for All website

PWD in 2012 Mardi Gras!

PWD is excited to announce that we're once again taking part in the Sydney Mardi Gras! We'll be marching, shouting and wheeling our way through the city to promote the sexual right of people with disability in the most fabulous way possible. Click here for more information.

Mental health consumers - raising issues and making complaints

The NSW Consumer Advocacy Group (NSW CAG) are conducting a survey on how consumers make complaints about mental health services. This survey has come about because many people using mental health services have told NSW CAG that they want it to be easier to raise issues.

Do you have ideas of what needs to be changed? NSW CAG want to hear about your experiences. You can share your thoughts by filling in the online survey at: www.surveymonkey.com/s/MHcomplaints

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Supported Projects

	Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign (ADJC)
	Australia Network for Universal Housing Design
	NSW Disability Advocacy Network
	Sexual Assault in Disability and Aged Care
	Touching Base