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Design from cover of the "Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Report" for South Australia, dated August 2025. The design features overlapping textured circles in shades of orange, red, pink, and purple on a purple background. Text credit below the image reads: "Image credit: Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Report."
Policy & Advocacy
Violence, Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation

JFA Purple Orange welcomes Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Final Report

“The starting point, not the finish line”: JFA Purple Orange welcomes Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Final Report JFA Purple Orange has welcomed the final report from...

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A man and a woman sitting at a table in an interview situation. The man on the left is bald and has a red t-shirt and the woman on his right, who has long dark hair, is looking in his direction.
Access & Inclusion
Education & Employment
Housing & Transport
Human Rights & Justice
NDIS & Foundational Supports
Violence, Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation

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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Human Rights & Justice
Violence, Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation

Death of Port Augusta woman highlights gaps in disability safeguards

We are deeply saddened by the death of Port Augusta resident Tegan Fredericks on Monday. We offer our condolences to those who knew and loved Tegan, as well as the...

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Access & Inclusion
Human Rights & Justice
Policy & Advocacy
Violence, Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation

Governments’ DRC responses don’t carry the decisiveness and urgency the disability community deserves

Disability advocacy agency JFA Purple Orange has today heard the disappointment of many people in the disability community after the Federal and State governments published their responses to the recommendations...

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Access & Inclusion
Education & Employment
Housing & Transport
Policy & Advocacy
Violence, Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation

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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Policy & Advocacy
Violence, Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation

Targeted action plan needed to address violence against women living with disability

JFA Purple Orange is calling on the next Federal Government to prioritise a targeted action plan to address violence against women and girls living with disability. Women and girls living...

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Photo of Ann Marie in a wheelchair with a king charles spaniel on her lap. She has long blonde hair and is wearing a red short sleeved top. There is a blurred man in the background.
Human Rights & Justice
Violence, Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation

Ann Marie Smith trial conclusion must herald more fundamental changes in disability support and how neglect is understood

Statement from Robbi Williams, CEO, JFA Purple Orange: Rosa Maione, a person whose actions led to the death of Ann Marie Smith, has been sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for...

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