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Troy Cassar-Daley backs winter vaccine campaign for mob
Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung country music icon Troy Cassar-Daley is urging First...
Joseph Guenzler 19 May 2026
Samoa highlights Pacific priorities at Women Deliver 2026
Samoa has used Women Deliver 2026 in Naarm (Melbourne) to push for Pacific-led c...
Rebekah Rasmussen 30 Apr 2026
First Peoples Disability Network urges government to listen before NDIS overhaul
First Peoples Disability Network Australia has joined Australia's Disability Rep...
Giovanni Torre 23 Apr 2026
Fiji breaks ground on $10 million rehabilitation centre in Tamavua
Fiji has broken ground on a new National Rehabilitation Centre in Tamavua as the...
Rebekah Rasmussen 21 Apr 2026
'One hell of a journey': Self-advocacy group for First Nations people with intellectual disabilities launches documentary
Aunty Jane Rosengrave and Sarah Waardenburg only ask for a couple of things; to...
Jarred Cross 16 Dec 2025
Samoa reaffirms commitment to disability inclusion at national commemoration

Samoa marked International Day for Persons with Disabilities with a two-day event focused on strengthening inclusion, support systems, and community participation for people living with disabilities.

Indigenous Australians with disability facing double the discrimination at work

Indigenous people with disability appear significantly more likely to be unemployed than Indigenous people without disability, according to new research.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Dec 3, 2025
World-renowned First Nations photography exhibition opens at the Australian Museum

The Australian Museum has announced the opening of a groundbreaking new 3D lenticular First Nations photographic exhibition - Unfinished Business.

Phoebe Blogg Phoebe Blogg Nov 10, 2025
First Peoples Disability Network launches national survey to drive reform

First Peoples Disability Network, in partnership with Jumbunna Research UTS, has officially launched the Our Way: Strengthening First Nations Disability Sector survey.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 17, 2025
Culturally safe disability support is essential for Aboriginal Communities - VACCHO chief executive

Disability services for Indigenous people must be culturally appropriate, respect kinship structures and embrace holistic understandings of health, the CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Contro...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 24, 2025
First Peoples Disability Network: Indigenous co-design and leadership vital for success of Thriving Kids program

The Commonwealth's $2 billion Thriving Kids program could be a game-changer for children with developmental needs, or it could become another well-intentioned policy that doesn't work for First Nation...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 8, 2025
Latest revelation in court shows 'fatal restraints and duty of care breaches continue to kill First Nations people with disability across Australia'

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this report contains names and references to people who have died. The First Peoples Disability Network has called for urgent reforms after co...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 3, 2025
First Peoples Disability Network set to launch national survey to fuel sector reforms

The First Peoples Disability Network, in partnership with Jumbunna Research UTS, is launching a national survey – Our Way: Strengthening First Nations Disability Sector.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 28, 2025
CJ McCarthy-Grogan to run for Darwin Council’s Chan Ward

Clarence CJ McCarthy-Grogan, the son of Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, is set to run for Darwin Council's Chan Ward at this month's Northern Territory local governm...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Aug 15, 2025
First Peoples Disability Network launches 10-Point Plan to reform NDIS

First Peoples Disability Network has launched a 10-Point Plan to reform the NDIS for First Nations people with disability. Built around three core pillars, the plan sets out 10 key actions the Network...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 5, 2025
First People's Disability Network condemns NT’s spit hood reintroduction: "a dehumanising policy of torture"

First Peoples Disability Network has condemned the Northern Territory government's youth justice overhaul, reviving spit hoods and abolishing the principle that detention be a last resort, warning the...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 31, 2025
'He was hungry, not a criminal': Death in custody of disabled Aboriginal man sparks fresh scrutiny of police response

Calls have grown for a full and independent investigation of the death of a 24-year-old disabled Aboriginal man in police custody as the NT grapples with more claims of violence from police towards Fi...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 29, 2025
Junior Miss Indigenous Australia set for U.S debut

Darkinjung woman Aurelia May Hough has been selected to represent Indigenous Australia as Junior Miss Indigenous Australia at the upcoming Regency International Beauty Pageant in San Antonio, Texas.

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler May 16, 2025
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