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‘In traditional language, there is no word for disability’ Damian Griffis in The Guardian for IndigenousX

"We have always been ‘come as you are’. The disability system in Australia is upside down in many ways" Read the story in the Guardian FPDN CEO Damian Griffis for…

Lisa Hindman In News

Tribute to Aunty Leila ‘Gayle’ Rankine

Eulogy given at the funeral service of Aunty Leila Gayle Rankine By Damian Griffis On behalf of the First Peoples Disability Network Family we offer our deepest condolences to Karruck,…

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Australia’s disability rights to do list

Here are some of the key concerns about Australia’s implementation of the CRPD that were highlighted by the Committee on the Convention on the Rights of People with Disability, Geneva,…

Lisa Hindman In News, Royal Commission

ABC News: Disability royal commission begins today, a long overdue reckoning into the violence against us

Opinion: By El Gibbs Today is the first public sitting of the disability royal commission, or to give it its full name, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and…

Lisa Hindman In News

Interview: Damian Griffis speaks to Hamish McDonald on RN Breakfast ‘Concerns over disability support in Australia brought to the UN’

Click play to listen to the interview or read the full transcript below. An Australian delegation has travelled to Geneva, to highlight concerns about lack of support services for people…

Lisa Hindman In News

Damian Griffis, FPDN CEO, Mentor and Co-Lead of the Australian Delegation to the United Nations, speaks to ABC NewsRadio’s Laura Tchilinguirian about the report the Delegation are presenting to the Committee to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability.

In September, seven representatives will present a report to the U.N Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Next month a delegation of people with disability will head to…

Lisa Hindman In News

CRPD Shadow Report consultation survey results

We asked people with disability about their rights in an online survey to help us prepare the Civil Society Shadow Report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Here’s…

Lisa Hindman In News, Royal Commission

“Change can’t happen for our people with disability without recognising the systemic barriers, such as poverty, for Aboriginal people with disability”. FPDN CEO Damian Griffis speaks to ABC RN Breakfast

Calls for disability royal commission to look into Indigenous prisoners View more: ABC RN Breakfast

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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…

Lisa Hindman In News, NuunaRon

Paintings by some of the Sunshine Coast’s most celebrated Indigenous artists at NuunaRon are about to hit the world stage

NuunaRon, a small group of artist living with disability on the Sunshine Coast using their traditional art to tell their stories of strength and resilience, have the opportunity to take…

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‘In traditional language, there is no word for disability’ Damian Griffis in The Guardian for IndigenousX

Tribute to Aunty Leila ‘Gayle’ Rankine

Australia’s disability rights to do list

ABC News: Disability royal commission begins today, a long overdue reckoning into the violence against us

Interview: Damian Griffis speaks to Hamish McDonald on RN Breakfast ‘Concerns over disability support in Australia brought to the UN’

Damian Griffis, FPDN CEO, Mentor and Co-Lead of the Australian Delegation to the United Nations, speaks to ABC NewsRadio’s Laura Tchilinguirian about the report the Delegation are presenting to the Committee to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability.

CRPD Shadow Report consultation survey results

“Change can’t happen for our people with disability without recognising the systemic barriers, such as poverty, for Aboriginal people with disability”. FPDN CEO Damian Griffis speaks to ABC RN Breakfast

Calls to stop criminalising disability after mentally ill Indigenous boy left ‘naked’ in watch house

Paintings by some of the Sunshine Coast’s most celebrated Indigenous artists at NuunaRon are about to hit the world stage

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