ABC North and West | Bulletins A South Australian wheelchair user says accommodation providers are being misleading in the way they promote rooms with disability access online. Semaphore wheelchair user Patricia Foley says booking holiday accommodation online that suits her...
Tony Piccolo, Disabilities Minister (891ABC 8.48-8.54) Housing issue for patient at Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre Bevan: Yesterday we were talking to Paul Barbaro, now he’s an advocate for people with disabilities and he surfaces every now and then, when there’s a...
The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD: I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Disabilities concerning budget allocations for the purchase of houses for people with intellectual disabilities. Leave granted. The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD:...
The Hon. K.L. VINCENT: Supplementary. Given that, if I hear correctly, there are some 1,000 houses currently untenanted and that the majority of those are undergoing what I think the minister termed minor modification before reallocation, would the minister consider...
Kelly Vincent has welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement that South Australia will be one of three launch sites for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, but remains concerned that instead of a postcode lottery, we’re implementing an age group lottery. “After...
The Hon. K.L. VINCENT: I actually have two supplementary questions. My first is: what exactly is the eligibility criterion or the definition of critical need, which I think you mentioned would cover 800 people over four years, if I heard...
Kelly Vincent is calling on government services and the wider community to recognise the plight of people with disabilities that are also experiencing homelessness or accommodation challenges. “With our winter solstice today, and Adelaide experiencing flooding across some of the...
The Hon. K.L. VINCENT: Is the minister able to provide a similar update about the residents remaining at the Strathmont Centre? The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion, Minister for Social Housing, Minister for Disabilities, Minister for...
This afternoon, Treasurer Snelling has allocated a forecasted $212.5 million over five years for people with disabilities in the State Budget. "I cautiously welcome the state government’s significant injection of funding into the sector,” says Dignity for Disability’s MLC Kelly...
With the inevitable and strategic leaking of good news stories from Treasurer Snelling in recent days, Dignity for Disability remain more concerned than ever that disability funding will be put on the backburner in tomorrow’s 2012 Budget by the state...
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