MEDIA STATEMENT: Advocates urge Senators to vote no on the government’s proposed NDIS Amendment Bill 2024 Tuesday, 20 August 2024 First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN) joins other disability representative…
As the National Peak Body for First Peoples with disability, The First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN) is profoundly disappointed by the Australian Government’s failure to fully commit to…
Government response to violence against people with disability deeply disappointing *List of spokespeople available for media interviews across Australia today is below* Today’s Federal, State and Territory government…
The legacy of Wotjobaluk sporting pioneer Uncle Kevin Coombs is not one to be forgotten as Australia’s Paralympians journey to the streets of Paris for the 2024 Games. Wotjobaluk…
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE Monday 11 March 2024 Multiple government sources have indicated off the record that a proposal to introduce punitive law and order measures – including changes to…
The Productivity Commission has publicly released its review on Government progress under the National Closing the Gap Agreement (the Review). FPDN welcomes the thoroughness of the Productivity Commission’s research…
FPDN CEO Damian Griffis yarns with 3KND Kool N Deadly specialist Journalist Natasha Ferre about the amazing work that FPDN are doing with mob and about The Disability Royal Commission…
Calls to stop criminalising disability after mentally ill Indigenous boy left ‘naked’ in watch house
An incident involving an Indigenous boy with a disability who was allegedly stripped naked and held in an adult watch house in Queensland is symptomatic of a broader problem, say…
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