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The Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA), formerly known as the Women with Disabilities Feminist Collective (WDFC), is an Australian social support organization representing women, girls, feminine identifying, and non-binary people with disabilities, which first engaged in feminist political action in the 1980s. [1] [2]
People with intellectual disability, Autism, learning disability: Elizabeth, Holden Hill, Adelaide: 1964. 1967 1967–1981 Special School; 1970 Sheltered Workshop and Day Training Centre; 1975 Residential Care; 1986 Project Employment (as Personnel Employment from 1989, Barkuma Employment in 2016) 1991 Disability Training Australia; 2015 ...
Born in Mount Stuart, Tasmania, Carolyn Frohmader received her bachelor's degree from University of Tasmania, and her master's degree from Flinders University, where she won the Michael Crotty Award for an outstanding contribution in Primary Health Care. Since 1997, Frohmader has been Chief Executive Officer of Women With Disabilities Australia ...
The department has a range of focus areas in the delivery of human services including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services, child safety, disability, community care, housing, homelessness, multicultural affairs, sport, recreation and women. The department is divided across seven regions: South East, South West, Far North Queensland ...
People with Disability Australia Ltd (PWDA) is a national Australian disability rights and advocacy organisation founded in 1980 and based in Surry Hills, Sydney. PWDA is a Disabled Persons Organisation (DPO), with an elected board of people with disability, and a national membership of people with disability.
Disability in Australia "was framed as an economic issue, rather than a social issue". [19] Research by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2011 found that by approximately 2025 the cost of maintaining the status quo in relation to the care of people with a disability would be greater than the cost of an NDIS. [20]
Lesley Maria Hall OAM (27 November 1954 – 19 October 2013) was a disability advocate, arts administrator, writer and activist. [1] She was one of the founders of the Women with Disabilities Feminist Collective (WDFC), now known as Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA), [2] and Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO). [3]
Pages in category "Disability organisations based in Australia" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .