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How many students are harassed or bullied?

29,092 K-12 students reported harassment or bullying based on their sex, race, or disability in 2020–2021, an 84% decrease from 2011–2012.

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Venice Biennale: regional Australian theatre company wins prestigious Golden Lion

Geelong’s Back to Back receives lifetime achievement award for work that ‘blows away’ prejudice and ‘makes disability a tool of artistic inquiry’

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Pledge to Boost Funding for Adaptations to Disabled People's Homes Deferred, Raising Concerns

Since 2008, the maximum allowable claim amount has been capped at £30,000. However, its real value has diminished by approximately a third.

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Ruth Bashall obituary

Other lives: Disability rights activist who advised the Met and Greater London Authority on hate crime, and domestic and sexual violence

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Dodgy NDIS providers on watch as task force unveiled

Disability providers who overcharge and under-service Australians are in the government's sights as it announces a task force to look at the NDIS registry.

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Disability advocates aim for wheelchair-powered world record climbing Mount Snowdon

Disability advocates Josh Wintersgill and Maxwell McKnight plan to climb Mount Snowdon in powered wheelchairs to raise awareness of accessibility issues.

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'Long way to go' to address abuse in care facilities

Vulnerable Victorians continue to face abuse, neglect and violence in their homes with community advocates reporting a rise in incidents.

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The treatment by police of a 13-year-old autistic boy is shocking – but it fits an appalling pattern

Our marginalised youth, those living with disability and First Nations people are policed in a way the majority of us would not recognise, nor tolerate

The Guardian - AU

The Census Bureau is dropping a controversial proposal to change disability statistics

After public outcries, the U.S. Census Bureau says it's no longer moving ahead with proposed survey changes that could have shrunk a key estimated rate of disability in the U.S. by about 40%.

WEKU

Home Office faces High Court challenge over ‘mistreatment’ of visa holders amid backlog

Visa holders have been wrongly suspended from work, seen disability benefits stopped and education jeopardised while waiting for visa renewals, a migrant charity has said

Evening Standard

New Bill Wants To Protect People With Disabilities In Driverless Cars

It’s rare to see politicians introduce proactive legislation.

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Acting, disability and the problem with ‘lived experience’

Letters: Guardian readers respond to the row about a non-disabled actor playing Richard III at Shakespeare’s Globe

The Guardian - UK

Sex, Me and Disability review – was it really necessary to spend so much time on sex workers?

This documentary about Rhys Bowler’s love life is overly concerned with disabled people paying for sex. It’s a highly questionable focus – even if there are moving moments

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Ralf Little returns in wildly popular tropical whodunnit

Death in Paradise celebrates 100 episodes with another murder. Plus: a taboo-shattering documentary about sex and disability. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Non-disabled Richard III actor to press on despite calls for recast

Michelle Terry, who is also the Globe’s artistic director, says she will not alter her physicality for role

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“I Was So Absolutely Done”: Woman Refuses To Be Moved From Her Seat By Entitled Passengers

No amount of pressure from a flight attendant would get this couple to switch seats. The post “I Was So Absolutely Done”: Woman Refuses To Be Moved From Her Seat By Entitled Passengers first appeared on Bored Panda.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m done with pretenders’: disabled actors on reclaiming Richard III

As the Globe faces accusations of ‘cripping up’ with a new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, disabled theatre-makers explain why the role should not be open to all

Evening Standard

Serving Met officer charged over 'gross WhatsApp texts mocking disability'

PC Ashley Cooper is due before Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday

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Fears ACT's VAD bill does not meaningfully exclude disability

An advocacy group is concerned at the removal of a time frame.

The Guardian - AU

Australian children with disabilities ‘struggling now more than ever’, autism expert says

Andrew Whitehouse, who joins national school funding board, calls for urgent reform amid new government negotiations

The Guardian - AU

Larry was paid $4.20 an hour in Australia. It’s not enough to live on – but it’s completely legal

People with intellectual disability are getting hourly wages that don’t even cover their bus trips to work. Advocates believe it’s time for a radical overhaul

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This Rescued Raccoon Fought For His Life Since The Beginning And Now He’s Thriving

Today, we would like to tell you the story of Elio, a courageous raccoon who, despite limited mobility, leads a happy life at Samadhi Wildlife Sanctuary. The post This Rescued Raccoon Fought For His Life Since The Beginning And Now He’s Thriving first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Pioneering MP Hails Disability Reform In Spain

Addressing Valencia's regional parliament, Mar Galceran's confidence is striking: she is Spain's first lawmaker with Down syndrome and one of just a few elected across Europe.

The Guardian - UK

Jon French obituary

Other lives: Actor and director of the disability-focused theatre group Face Front

The Guardian - AU

‘I had to use the grain ramp’: the fight for disability inclusion in Australian agriculture

When Sam Bailey became a quadriplegic at 19, he was advised to get an office job in town. Instead he made his farm wheelchair-accessible

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