Dignity for Disability MLC Kelly Vincent has welcomed the call from Maurice Blackburn lawyers today, urging people with intellectual disability to preserve their rights and ensure the Federal Government does not infringe their capacity to seek due damages following a...
Kelly Vincent, MLC, Dignity For Disability (891ABC 9.07-9.16) Federal Government disability support pension overhaul Thomson: Kelly Vincent MLC for South Australian Dignity for Disability, when you look around South Australia and needs for those with disabilities and the fact that...
Kelly Vincent, Dignity for Disability (5AA 13.19-13.28) Proposed overhaul of the Disability Support Pension / Issues around training and employment for people with disabilities Godfrey: Reviewing of the Disability Support Pension, let’s take a look at another aspect of it....
There can be little denying that disability can be both a cause and a consequence of poverty. Particularly in poorer countries, where no one is financially well-off or stable to begin with, people with disabilities can often be subject to...
Kelly Vincent MLC is warning the Gillard Government against cutting the Disability Support Pension (DSP) in the upcoming budget. Media reports suggest the Gillard Government is planning to tighten the criteria for the Disability Support Pension to encourage more people...
Kelly Vincent today called on the Business Council’s Graham Bradley to look at constructive ways for businesses to improve equal employment opportunity for people with disabilities, rather than demonising people who are in receipt of Disability Support Pensions. Ms Vincent’s...
Kelly Vincent MLC can’t book a Taxi on Christmas Day, and neither can anyone else who uses a wheelchair. When David Bevan referred to the hire car licensing system as "formalised extortion” and "a protection racket” on ABC891 last week...
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