Media Releases
Thursday, 22 June 2017
Dignity Party flush with success
Dignity Party MP Kelly Vincent praised the disability community on successful lobbying following the State Government establishing a grant scheme for Changing Places specialised toilet facilities in today’s Budget. “This is a human rights initiative because everyone must have...
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Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Dignity Party State Budget demands
On Budget Eve, Dignity Party MP Kelly Vincent is demanding action from the Government and Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis to ensure South Australians in poverty are not left behind in this budget. She is calling for funding and resources to improve...
Saturday, 10 June 2017
Northgate is not the answer to Government’s Oakden failure
Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent is demanding the Weatherill Government fund a 21st century purpose-built facility in the upcoming State Budget to replace the failed Oakden facility. “In the Oakden Report, Chief Psychiatrist Dr Aaron Groves made a range of...
Friday, 9 June 2017
Exploring and ensuring all our regions have to offer
Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent enjoyed country hospitality in Kadina, Port Pirie and Port Augusta this week. "I set out to explore the region and meet with locals ahead of the next phase of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS),...
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
A fair go in education for students with disabilities
Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent has tabled the report on Access to the South Australian Education system for Students with a Disability in the Parliament. “Families, educators and representative groups from across the state made their views known through the...
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Access denied: no Sheeran or Mars tickets for people with disabilities
Wheelchair users may as well live on Mars for the sheer remote chance of getting tickets Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent is calling on Ticketek to urgently improve their sales process after many South Australians with disabilities have been unable...
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
Shorten must support Medicare NDIS levy
Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent is calling on Federal Labor to support the Federal Budget increase in the Medicare levy to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). “The NDIS is a once in a...
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Federal Budget: cause and effect
Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent has raised serious concerns about Federal Budget measures mooting changes to welfare payments, particularly around removal of the Disability Support Pension where substance abuse has caused the disability, and the...
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Oakden: Minister yields to Dignity Party demands
Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent says this afternoon’s announcement in Parliament by the Minister for Mental Health confirms the Minister must listen to MPs connected with their constituents and community. “Today’s announcement by the Minister...
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Oakden: appalling culture of abuse and neglect must end
Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent says today’s announcement that the Oakden Older Persons Mental Health Service will be shut down is welcome news given the rampant culture of abuse, restraint, neglect that has characterised this...
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Parliament must find new voice
Dan Jervis-Bardy | City Messenger WHEN the new South Australian Parliament sits for the first time in the coming months, it will be without its most fearless voice. The convoluted Upper House elections are yet to be finalised, but, barring...
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