Submit a topic for Dylan Alcott in the next Coloplast webinar
Coloplast, a partner of Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, is holding a webinar series featuring Paralympic Gold medallist and Wimbledon champion, Dylan Alcott. In the last webinar, Dylan discussed breaking the taboo for people with disability. Here’s your chance...
NSW, WA and SA refuse commitment to inclusive National Construction Code
The Building Better Homes Campaign, a coalition of peak disability bodies and agencies including SCIA, advocated for the inclusion of mandatory minimum accessibility standards within the National Construction Code (NCC). Although a majority of state and territory...
Disability Doesn’t Discriminate Campaign
If you listened to our latest episode of Have The Nerve you would have heard about the differences in aged care funding for older Australians with a disability, with particular focus on funding if you are ineligible for the NDIS. In the episode Megan, from our Policy...
‘Independent assessments are dead’. Let’s get back to the drawing board!
Following a meeting between the state and territory Disability Ministers and Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Linda Reynolds, it was announced that independent assessments (IAs) in their current form will not go ahead. As Shadow Minister...
Listen to episode six of Have The Nerve
In episode six of SCIA’s podcast Have The Nerve we discuss navigating support funding for older Australians with disability from the NDIS to My Aged Care. You’ll hear lived experiences from Susan who sustained a brain injury in 2005 and was able to get onto the...
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