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Recently, there has been a greater push to have disability visible in the media and represented across the board in politics, entertainment, and the workplace. This is fantastic and we applaud this, but the types of disability we see in these spaces are usually the more widely known ones, such as Down’s Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Multiple Sclerosis.

Imagine you’ve had a fully functioning body for 35+ years and then one day, something doesn’t feel right. You lose sensation on one side; your vision blurs and you feel dizzy. It must be a pinched nerve, you assume. After a while, your body goes back to its normal...

With NAIDOC week being celebrated on 3-10 July, this month, we’re taking a look at disability in Australia’s Indigenous communities. Disability affects the Indigenous population at almost two times the rate it does non-Indigenous Australians. This often comes with a...

In light of Men’s Health Week, we’re focusing on men’s matters and the challenges facing men in general and specifically, men with disabilities.

Children living with disabilities, whether mental or physical, are starting out in life with a few extra challenges. Not only because of their disability but also because of the stigma and stereotypes they are likely to experience throughout their life.

As humans, it’s in our nature to fear the unknown, the unfamiliar, the different. If you go back to primitive times, that’s how we survived – by approaching anything we didn’t understand with caution. We no longer live in primitive times now, but that tendency has...

It’s International Women’s Day on the 8th March and this year, the theme is #BreakTheBias. Women’s rights and awareness of women’s struggles have come a long way since the suffragette era, but there is still loads of progress to be made to make this a fair and equal world.

February 18th is International Asperger’s Awareness Day. In light of that, we’re turning the spotlight on Asperger’s this month, so that you can better understand what it is, how it manifests, and how you can support a person living with Asperger’s.

The stigma surrounding disability often comes from a lack of understanding and familiarity with the subject. It is the fear of the unknown.