MEDIA RELEASE 3 March 2017 Disability groups slam Government decision not to hold Royal Commission into violence and abuse Disabled People’s Organisations Australia (DPO Australia), an alliance of national…
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The Redfern Statement leaders make the case for change – a blueprint for the future. [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVvGQlHoC18[/embedyt] A closed caption version is available on our Facebook page.
Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peaks will today demand a new relationship with government as they deliver the historic Redfern Statement direct to the Prime Minister at…
First Peoples Disability Network’s leadership and staff are in Canberra today for the Redfern Statement Breakfast with the Prime Minister and will then attend the PM’s Closing the Gap address….
MEDIA RELEASE 13 February 2017 Don’t fund the NDIS with cuts to social services and childcare Disabled People’s Organisations Australia (DPO Australia), is alarmed and concerned that the Federal…
MEDIA RELEASE 20 December 2016 Expertise of people with disability vital to the Board of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) A diverse partnership of 37 representative organisations of…
Uncle Lester Bostock was awarded honorary doctorate on Friday 9 December by AFTRS. Lester Bostock is a leader of the Aboriginal disability movement and Aboriginal film-making and media. AFTRS released…
Jane Rosengrave received the Tony Fitzgerald Memorial Award at the Australian Human Rights Awards 2016 on Friday. The Tony Fitzgerald Memorial Community Award – Individual is awarded to a person with a track…
Change The Record Coalition put out this media release today. COAG must seize opportunity for action on imprisonment and violence rates. MEDIA RELEASE: 08.12.16 The Change the Record Coalition is urging…
On Friday 2 December 2016, NSW Manager Dianne Brookes and WA coordinator, Wendy Wright attended an International Day of People with Disability event at Crown Casino, Perth. The Hon. Donna…
MEDIA RELEASE 2 December 2016 International Day of People with Disability Celebrate, Reflect, Act The 3 December each year is the United Nations International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD). …
**MEDIA RELEASE** Criminalising disability: Federal leadership required to end the indefinite detention of people with Cognitive and Psychiatric Impairment The Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs tabled its report…
Our Policy and Research Director Scott Avery attending and presented at Nga Pae o te Maramatanga – International Indigenous Research Conference at the University of Auckland. The research conference…
Last night on Lateline Jonathan Hunyor, CEO of The Public Interest Advocacy Centre and our CEO, Damian Griffis, were interviewed following an update on Rosie Ann Fulton’s situation in the…
Congratulations to our wonderful Board member, Jane Rosengrave. Jane has just been announced as a finalist in the Australian Human Rights Awards 2016. Please see information pasted below from the…
Aunty Gayle Rankine, Chairperson of First Peoples Disability Network has been appointed to the Government’s new National Disability and Carers Advisory Council. The Hon. Jane Prentice MP announced the new…
In July 2016, Following the ABC’s 4 Corners program highlighting the abuse and neglect of young people in detention in the Northern Territory, the Prime Minister of Australia and the…
The Redfern Statement is available here.
PDF version: ctrmediarelease_final_27-10-16 CHANGE THE RECORD MEDIA RELEASE – Thursday 27th October 2016 Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment must focus on solutions A…
June Riemer, Deputy CEO of FPDN is heading to Edinburgh Scotland to the RI World Conference next week. RI World Congress is staged every four years, in the name of…
MEDIA RELEASE 17 October 2016 ACT NDIS shutdown must be reversed A number of national and ACT disability representative and advocacy organisations are…
Download document here. Statement to the Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee Inquiry into the adequacy of residential arrangements for young people with severe physical, mental or intellectual disabilities
MEDIA RELEASE 5 October 2016 Peak disability group condemns decision to deny Deaf juror equal access Today the High Court of Australia unanimously rejected an appeal from Gaye Lyons,…
On Friday 23 September the UN issued a news release urging Australia to amend the laws that lead to people being detained because of disability. At the release of the report, the…
It’s Anti Poverty Week this week. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability are often experience multiple barriers leaving them economically and socially excluded. Ensuring that we have a truly inclusive society with…
FPDN’s Policy and Research Director, Scott Avery is presenting at the ACWA breakfast in Parramatta, Sydney on Tuesday morning. Scott will be talking about access to justice and disability. In…
Today, on the first day of Federal Parliament, FPDN was proud to stand alongside national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership organisations to deliver a strong message to Prime Minister Turnbull,…
This week is Brain Injury Awareness Week. At the First Peoples Disability Network we say that meeting the needs of Aboriginal people with disabilities is one of the most…
It’s Brain Injury Awareness Week. FPDN is partnering with Synapse and holding a community event in Redfern on Monday 15 August at 1.30pm. The event is being held at the…
The Aboriginal Disability Network NSW (ADNNSW) has merged with First Peoples Disability Network Australia (FPDN), as of July 2016. We are the Aboriginal Disability Network NSW (ADNNSW) is an FPDN project of…
Today is the United Nations International Day of World’s Indigenous People “In Australia an Indigenous child with disability is more likely to matriculate into prison than into tertiary education. Many Indigenous children…
ABC’s 4 Corners program brought national attention to the incarceration and institutionalisation of our young people. The abuse, neglect and torture exposed on 4 Corners is alarming and our thoughts…
FPDN’s CEO, Damian Griffis and Research and Policy Director, Scott Avery were featured in a video presentation shown at the Deadly Deaf Mob conference in Western Sydney in 2015. [embedyt]…
25 January 2016 First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN) CEO Damian Griffis and Chairperson Aunty Gayle Rankine will give the annual Kevin Cook lecture to open Yabun Festival on Australia Day…
Tuesday 15 December 2015 Media reports reveal that promised additional funding to support students with disability has been delayed again and will not begin in 2016. Last week Education Ministers…
Tuesday 10 November 2015 The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has raised serious concerns about human rights violations against Aboriginal people with disability during its review of Australia’s human…
27 August 2015 Today, the Australian Cross Disability Alliance will appear before the Senate Committee inquiring into violence, abuse and neglect against people with disability in institutional and residential settings….
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