SYDNEY, 23 May 2018 /PRNewswire Policy/ -- Aboriginal businesses operating in the disability services sector have a chance to apply for their share in a new $4.5 million NSW Government program which ...

A new program to help Aboriginal people with disabilities will soon be rolled out in far west New South Wales. The State Government has announced eleven new organisations that will help deliver the ...

Ruth McCausland is Vice-President of the Board of the Community Restorative Centre. Australia imprisons thousands of Aboriginal people with mental and cognitive disability from disadvantaged ...

Karl Hardy-McConkey has been homeless and living on the streets with epilepsy and an acquired brain injury disability. One Darwin NDIS provider has 80 per cent Indigenous clientele but says it can't ...

John Gilroy receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Jennifer Smith-Merry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

IT was a well-meaning policy meant to give back independence to people with a disability but indigenous Australians have been left behind by the NDIS “It’s hard to talk about.” The man, who required a ...

A 'dire lack of appropriate community-based services and support' has led to Indigenous people with mental and cognitive disabilities being 'managed' by police, courts and prisons. Research released ...

Police have become the default frontline response to Aboriginal people with mental and cognitive disabilities. In the absence of culturally responsive and therapeutic community-based support, regular ...

Many aboriginal people living with disabilities say the federal government and their band councils aren't doing enough to help them — so a committee recently formed to try to get aid. But a committee ...

I was interviewing prisoners in a male prison in Western Australia, on a sweltering afternoon, when Coen (not his real name) walked in, in his faded green prison uniform. For the first five minutes ...

Click here to download an Easy-to-Read version of the report Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this report contains images and names of people who have passed away. In ...