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We Acknowledge And Pay Our Respects To First Australians

We want to see a world where everyone is included, respected and gets a fair go in life. We can't get there without acknowledging that our office sits on the land of the Kaurna people. Like people living with disability, we recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander people continue to experience inequality and division. We want them to know we are their allies. We believe their culture, history, diversity and deep connection to the land deserves our highest respect.

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International Women's Day 2022

This International Women's Day 2022 we are sharing stories of women living with disability who #BreakTheBias. Meet this year's nominees and learn more about amazing women who are advocating for the disability community.

Get started and build your SKILLs!

We’re going digital with the SKILL workshops! Do you want to learn how to build your best life? Are you interested in building an NDIS plan with the supports that you want? Reach your goals, choose your own adventure and more!

How can we create inclusive communities?

The only way our communities will become truely inclusive of people living with disability, is if they are involved in planning and decision making. Here is a great example of what that looks like.

Your Stories: International Day of People with Disability 2021

This International Day of People with Disability, we asked people why it is important to have people with disability as leaders in the community. These are the stories we received.

Podcast: Evolution of Self-Understanding

Leanne's relationship with understanding herself as a disabled woman is a complex and ever-evolving process. She's at a point where she feels empowered and in control of her own narrative. This is her story of arriving there.

Podcast: Claiming your right to risk [rerun]

Purple Orange is growing! We've hired so many great new staff recently, including Ellen Fraser-Barbour who featured in our second ever podcast episode. It's a great one about claiming your right to risk when you live with disability. It's definitely worth a listen!

What do you wish you knew when you were 11?

Send us a voice memo with your advice. You may appear in a podcast or social media post.

Video: The Power of Peer

Skills, Confidence, Public Speaking, Moving out on your own, Friends - This are some of the things Our Voice SA members have gained.

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Esther

When I was preparing to come to Australia, I didn't know if I was going to find African food in Australia, or I was going to be eating Mzungu (white people) food. But coming to Australia and realising that there are African shops everywhere and there's African food, that gave me a slice of Africa and that helped me to resettle in Australia and find my healing.

It is important to recognise and acknowledge that not all refugee migrants who have resettled in Australia have not been able to find healing, because they have not been able to receive the support that meets their individual needs. There are a lot of refugee migrants especially in the African community that are struggling to resettle in Australia. Even after being in Australia for 10 years, they struggle to resettle. In African-Sudanese culture, people don't talk about personal issues to psychologists, they don't talk about family issues to psychologists. And it became difficult for them to deal with that. That's why they find it difficult to resettle."

"When I was preparing to come to Australia, I didn't know if I was going to find African food in Australia, or I was going to be eating Mzungu (white people) food. But coming to Australia and realising that there are African shops everywhere and there's African food, that gave me a slice of Africa and that helped me to resettle in Australia and find my healing.

(quoted at Refugee Week 2022 celebrations)

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