Tag: Disability
In-school occupational therapy creates positive education experiences for kids with autism
In an Australian first, South Australia has appointed a new Assistant Minister for Autism, tasked to increase autism supports in public primary schools. This...
Hello Winter! Welcome Butterfly Nebula & Jane Eyre
Winter Season 2022 begins with a sunny outlook this week (inside the theatre, anyway)! We want to thank all the incredible artists who shared their...
By naming ‘Pennhurst’, Stranger Things uses disability trauma for entertainment. Dark tourism and asylum tours do too
Image: Netflix
The Netflix sci-fi horror series Stranger Things is vividly soaked in 1980s nostalgia, famously catapulting Kate Bush’s 1985 song Running up that Hill to the top of...
Sunday essay: single parenting with a disability – how my 9-year-old daughter became my carer in shining armour
Shakira Hussein (seated in chair) with daughter Adalya Nash Hussein. Photo by Leah Jing McIntosh. Author provided
My daughter started to describe me as disabled long before I...
Third time lucky? What has changed in the latest draft of the religious discrimination bill?
The Morrison government has finally provided details of the third draft of its religious discrimination bill. This prompted heated discussion in a meeting of Coalition MPs...
Opening up when 80% of eligible adults are vaccinated won’t be ‘safe’ for all Australians
Picture: Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services.
We’ve all grown tired of lockdowns, border closures and other restrictions. So the promise of a freer life, when...