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Students with disability missing from SA election debate on education, advocates warn

Tens of thousands of students with disability are being overlooked in promised education reforms ahead of the South Australian state election. That is the warning from Children and Young People...

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Parties pitch their policies and respond to asks at State Election Disability Forum

Politicians from across the political spectrum came together with the community to discuss issues important to South Australians with disability at JFA Purple Orange’s first ever State Election Disability Forum...

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We’re asking six key questions for politicians ahead of the Federal Election: Will they listen?

With the federal election set for 3 May 2025, South Australian-based disability advocacy organisation JFA Purple Orange has written to all major political parties and federal members of parliament, calling...

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Commissioners Galbally, McEwin, and Bennett are right to recommend end to disability segregation and discrimination

JFA Purple Orange has today endorsed the recommendations of three commissioners of the Disability Royal Commission to phase out and end the segregation of people living with disability in Australia....

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Australia must discontinue segregation of people living with disability

As the curtain closes on the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, we keenly await its final report with the expectation it strongly recommends...

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Are workers living with disability part of Australia’s employment success story?

On Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release the latest national Labour Force statistics. It is expected that the April unemployment rate will continue the recent downward trend,...

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Education & Employment
Human Rights & Justice

The Great Australian Rip-Off

The Disability Royal Commission yesterday heard that South Australian disability support agency Bedford Group, which boasts it is the second largest employer of people living with disability in Australia, pays...

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Parties respond to key election issues impacting South Australians living with disability

JFA Purple Orange has today launched a webpage to inform voters in the South Australian election about some of the key issues that are important to the disability community in...

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Education & Employment

Launch of innovative aged care traineeship for people living with disability

JFA Purple Orange, in collaboration with five aged care and two disability employment providers and South Australian education provider, EQUALS International, have launched an innovative model to offer traineeships for...

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Education & Employment

Enabled Youth Disability Network (EYDN) launches first South Australian Student Diversity Advisory Council

Working in partnership with the South Australian Department for Education, the Enabled Youth Disability Network (EYDN) has established the first Student Diversity Advisory Council in South Australia. Kathryn Mills, EYDN...

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