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One Man’s 5 Year Struggle and Fight to bring Australia’s biggest Disability Events to Life

Editor’s Note this post is by Mr River Night and Developing Australian Communities As a man living with disability, juggling the role of carer, father, national advocate and leader, River describes the loneliness at the centre of one of Australia’s biggest disability communities, the fight and uphill work that it takes to achieve what he…

Developing Australian Communities Calls Out the Government for blindspot on disability sector and Paralympic funding

A leading Australian disability advocate has called out successive political leaders for their selective blindness when it comes to the disability sector. More than 6,000 people flocked to Brisbane over the weekend for the largest disability and NDIS-related event in the nation’s history and not one of the three levels of government could manage to…