Wendy Williams, Wednesday, 17th August 2016 - National disability organisations have condemned the treatment of a student who was allegedly “locked in a cage” and have called on the government to establish a royal commission.…
Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 10th August 2016 -
Australia’s peak bodies for welfare and international aid have called for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to urgently examine incidents…
Wendy Williams, Monday, 1st August 2016 - Indigenous advocate Mick Gooda and former justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland Margaret White AO have been appointed to head up the royal commission into the Northern Territory’s…
Wendy Williams, Monday, 1st August 2016 - The royal commissioner into juvenile justice Brian Martin has resigned just four days after being appointed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.The former supreme court judge confirmed…
Lina Caneva, Thursday, 28th July 2016 - The federal government has appointed former Northern Territory Supreme Court Chief Justice Brian Ross Martin AO to head the royal commission into the state’s child protection and…
Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 27th July 2016 -
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has revealed that a royal commission into youth detention abuse, following the damning ABC Four Corners report, will be limited to the Northern Territory,…
Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 26th July 2016 -
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced a royal commission to investigate the issues raised in an ABC Four Corners report into abuse in the juvenile detention system in the…
Lina Caneva, Thursday, 23rd June 2016 -
The Australian Greens would commit $400 million over four years to fund a royal commission into abuse, violence and neglect of people with disability in institutional and residential…
Lina Caneva, Thursday, 5th May 2016 -
Monash University is urging professionals, including those in the Not for Profit sector, to take part in new research to help shape the way Victoria responds to family violence.
The…
Eisha Gupta , Tuesday, 12th April 2016 - A major Not For Profit organisation for adult survivors of childhood trauma has rebranded into the Blue Knot Foundation to encourage new conversations around trauma – on the heels…
Xavier Smerdon, Thursday, 26th November 2015 -
Disability advocates have praised a Senate report calling for a Royal Commission into disability abuse to be established.
After months of a Senate inquiry investigating claims…
Ellie Cooper, Thursday, 17th September 2015 -
The Turnbull Government has said that the state governments should “take the lead” on investigating incidences of abuse against people with disability rather than…