@pwda

pwda has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in July 2021. The social media accounts linked to from pwda are: • Facebook • Instagram • YouTube • Email • X Besides social media accounts, pwda has populated their site with: • Australian Government response to the Thriving Kids Inquiry | Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing • New Framework Planning and NDIS Supports Consultation - Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing - Citizen Space • Easy Read Final report from the Senate Committee on the NDIS Bill and what Inclusion Australia thinks. – Inclusion Australia • PWDA slams Senate Committee’s Recommendation to Pass the NDIS Bill - People with Disability Australia • PWDA Community Survey: Inclusive Communities Fund • Megan Spindler-Smith, National Press Club Address 10 August 2026 - People with Disability Australia • Aviation disability standards consultation paper | Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts • NDIS reforms: Disability advocates and human rights groups warn of significant harm under Labor’s proposed budget cuts • Joint communique on NDIS Amendment Bill • Work with us - People with Disability Australia • PWDA member blog: ‘Barriers’ – a poem by Nerida Kingsford - People with Disability Australia • PWDA Supplementary Paper to the NDIS Amendment Bill Inquiry 2026 - People with Disability Australia • Illawarra Mercury - Housing and disability • MEDIA RELEASE: PWDA warns new evidence shows Government is not ready for sweeping NDIS reforms - People with Disability Australia • PWDA launches the Community Attitudes project - People with Disability Australia • PWDA elections and AGM - People with Disability Australia • Take Charge Project - CYDA • Understanding mental health service use by people with disability - Summary • AFL stars in hot water over disabled toilet video • National Disability Insurance Agency | Humanitix • Technical Advisory Group for NDIS functional capacity | Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing • Building Access Workshop – Charlestown - People with Disability Australia • Building Access Workshop – Hunter Valley - People with Disability Australia • Healthy Relationships Workshop- Charlestown - People with Disability Australia • Jarrod Sandell-Hay introduction • These changes are not the true intent of the scheme - People with Disability Australia • Media Release: PWDA Responds to NSW Budget • Greens secure longer inquiry into NDIS; government support for failsafe amendments if the liberals help labor to pass cuts | Australian Greens • Conference of the States Parties • NDIS Insights with Dr George • Understanding Information About Changes to the NDIS Survey • “When support is withdrawn, the need does not disappear” - People with Disability Australia • Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee | 10/06/2026 • Nothing about us without us ALL: effective co-design with people with disability in all our diversity (COSP19 Side Event) | UN Web TV • Exclusive: Unprecedented automation in NDIS decisions | The Saturday Paper • Have your say! Blue Mountains City Council Disability Inclusion Action Plan - People with Disability Australia • Are we being misled about NDIS fraud? Yes, we are. • CEO SLEEPOUT - Karen Karakaya • CEO SLEEPOUT - Megan Spindler-Smith • Joint submission: NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 - People with Disability Australia • Introducing — Autistic AF with Grace Tame - ABC listen • How to make a Parliamentary Submission - People with Disability Australia • PWDA submission of the NDIS Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 - People with Disability Australia • e-petitions – Parliament of Australia • MEDIA RELEASE: PWDA warning on NDIS overhaul • MEDIA RELEASE: PWDA responds to the 2026-2027 Federal Budget - People with Disability Australia • THE NDIS SAVED MY LIFE because… A Reasonable. Necessary. Ordinary story - People with Disability Australia • Your Stories of Reasonable. Necessary and Ordinary NDIS Supports - People with Disability Australia • Protect Our NDIS Alliance | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree • Reasonable. Necessary. Ordinary. - People with Disability Australia • Reasonable. Necessary. Ordinary Campaign • PWDA warns NDIS changes risk leaving people without support - People with Disability Australia • Sex & Open Relating in Queer & Disabled Communities: InFocus with Shannon - People with Disability Australia • Finding a sense of community as a gay man living with a disability: InFocus with Tony - People with Disability Australia • My body, my fight, my right to healthcare: InFocus with Bridg - People with Disability Australia • The Joy of Being Known: InFocus with Haley - People with Disability Australia • Visibility doesn’t have to be loud: InFocus with Tee - People with Disability Australia • “Cuts to the NDIS are cuts to ordinary lives” - People with Disability Australia • NDIS participants work more, feel better after accessing scheme, report finds - ABC News • My life changed after brain injury, but it is still a good life: InFocus with Mandy - People with Disability Australia • PWDA submission NDIS Evidence Advisory Committee: Third Round - People with Disability Australia • We should be treated equally and respect each other: InFocus with Lex - People with Disability Australia • “We’re here. We’re queer. We’re disabled. And we are in focus.” - People with Disability Australia • PWDA welcomes Australia’s first Deafblind class in mainstream public school - People with Disability Australia • “Double the pride. Double the fun”: InFocus with Finn - People with Disability Australia • InFocus at Fair Day - People with Disability Australia • In praise of my wheelchair this International Wheelchair Day - People with Disability Australia • Fully accessible design does not exist. We can do better - People with Disability Australia • Dignity of risk and supported decision making must sit at the heart of NDIS reform - People with Disability Australia • What are the NDIS reforms, and why are they happening? - People with Disability Australia • PWDA put queer disabled people In Focus at Mardi Gras - People with Disability Australia • NSW Parliament establishes inquiry into a Human Rights Act — Human Rights for NSW • “Pansexual, this is perfect”: InFocus with Rory Keyes - People with Disability Australia • Advocacy for Menstrual Equity | Share the Dignity • Reflecting on the Disability Royal Commission: First Nations Perspective - People with Disability Australia • NDIS Evidence Advisory Committee Consultation February 2026 - Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing - Citizen Space • DROs Respond to Government Agreement on Disability Supports - People with Disability Australia • air travel - People with Disability Australia • Jetstar twice violated own policy on fees for changing name of support worker for man with a disability - ABC News • Disability advocacy organisation calls for hate speech… | Powerd Media • PWDA’s Online Forum: Two Years On From the Disability Royal Commission - People with Disability Australia • Making Australia’s Hate Speech and Vilification Laws Work for People with Disability - People with Disability Australia • Get help - People with Disability Australia • Submissions and reports - People with Disability Australia • Events - People with Disability Australia • How Louis Braille’s musical notation system remains relevant 200 years after its invention - ABC News • New Framework Planning Pool • Home - People with Disability Australia • Appointment of PWDA Board Executive Officers - People with Disability Australia • United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - People with Disability Australia • I’m 15 years old and have a disability. Social media has been a lifeline – why is the government kicking me off? | Ezra Sholl | The Guardian • How Disability-Affirming Language Builds Connection, Confidence and Customers - People with Disability Australia • Disability representative organisations call for transparency on ‘Computer-Generated NDIS Plans’ - People with Disability Australia • PWDA IDPwD 2025: Highlights From the A Voice of Our Own National Online Conference - People with Disability Australia • “When we’re united, we raise the standard of what this country believes is fair, possible, and just” - People with Disability Australia • Disability and People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds (2025) | Disability Gateway • 16 Days of Activism 2025: Gender-based Violence in the Digital Age - People with Disability Australia • PWDA joins 106 organisations and experts in a call for inquiry into Human Rights Act for NSW - People with Disability Australia • Daniel Flynn announced as Interim President of PWDA - People with Disability Australia • Disability advocates recognised among fi... | Disability Support Guide • PWDA Statement: NDIS Needs Assessment Tool I-CAN Version-6 - People with Disability Australia • MEDIA RELEASE: PWDA Welcomes the Announcement on the New Support Needs Assessment Tool and the Commitment to Adapting the Tool Through Co-design to Ensure it is Fit for Purpose - People with Disability Australia • Consent is a human right: An article in collaboration with People With Disability Australia • Nothing about us, without us - People with Disability Australia • Why We Need to Let All Kids Learn Together - People with Disability Australia • Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, Tomoya Obokata* • Disability Discrimination Commissioner urges Qld Govt to scrap plans to build more segregated schools • All You Need To Know About Changes to NDIS Pricing and Claiming from 1 July 2025 - People with Disability Australia • Disability representative organisations call for accountability after NDIA conduct targeting person with disability - People with Disability Australia • Joint Statement on New NDIS Funding Periods • PWDA want to seek the truth behind FOI revelations and NDIA actions - People with Disability Australia • Queensland risks condemning generations of students to segregated schooling - People with Disability Australia • The NDIS is changing in WA. What can people expect? • COSP18 – Megan Spindler-Smith Intervention • Media release: NSW Budget is missing key opportunities • PWDA highlights from Day 3 at COSP18 • New Government… Now What for the NDIS? | Reasonable & Necessary LIVE • PWDA bringing all the highlights from day one at COSP18 in New York - People with Disability Australia • Ending restrictive practices against First Nations people with disability: Finding a culturally sensitive way forward - People with Disability Australia • PWDA highlights from COSP18 official opening day: Tuesday 10 June • PWDA at the 18th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD - People with Disability Australia • Left behind – the deadly gaps in emergency preparedness for… • CripChat Australia#208: Emergency Planning for People with Disabilities in Natural Disasters • Advocates urge Labor to act quickly on reform • Support for a nationally consistent approach to assistance animals - People with Disability Australia • Snap Survey Responses – Supports and the NDIS – Advocacy for Inclusion • Perth mother's plea to stop bullying of son with Tourette syndrome • Membership - People with Disability Australia • CripChat Australia #212: Political Discourse and People with Disabilities • Newsletters - People with Disability Australia • LGBTQ Domestic Violence Awareness Foundation | 28 May #SeenAndBelieved • National Reconciliation Week 2025: Bridging Now to Next • PWDA calls for clarity and inclusion following delays to foundational supports rollout - People with Disability Australia • How to access photo identification in Australian States and Territories - People with Disability Australia • People with Disability Invisible in Election Debates and Housing Promises • $10 MILLION TO STRENGTHEN MEDICARE FOR THE LGBTIQA+ COMMUNITY — Mark Butler MP • National Action Plan for the Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQA+ People 2025–2035 • PWDA 2025 Federal Election Hub • Submission on Registration for Supported Independent Living and Support Coordination • PWDA Responds to Registration of NDIS Participants Who Self Direct Their Supports - People with Disability Australia • Federal Budget 2025: People with disability invisible in key budget measures but funding for disability supports a start - People with Disability Australia • Federal Budget week begins - ABC listen • Choosing between a world without conversation or without music • Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) | A-Z medicine listing • Accessibility of the Trainlink Coach Network in NSW - People with Disability Australia • Submission on the nine Strategic Regional Integrated Transport Plans - People with Disability Australia • 'Collateral Damage' Report Into Australia's COVID-19 Pandemic Response • ChatGPT shown to overlook job applicants with disability | Disability Support Guide • Information for people with disability or mobility restrictions • After the storm: how Northern Rivers communities are leading disaster resilience • Inaccessible housing article - ABC News • International Women’s Day 2025: What does it mean to women and girls with disability? - People with Disability Australia • Why PWDA member Caitlin is ‘Proud and Free to be Me’ - People with Disability Australia • Register your interest - Australian Bureau of Statistics • PWDA’s NSW Pre-Budget Submission - People with Disability Australia • PWDA’s response to the NSW Homelessness Strategy - People with Disability Australia • Building Access Workshop and Networking • President Trinity Ford on Doin Time with 3CR Radio • PWDA’s 2025 Federal Pre-Budget Submission for People with Disability - People with Disability Australia • States and Territories Abandon People with Disability as NDIS Reforms Tighten Access - People with Disability Australia • Supporting Students with Disability - People with Disability Australia • Disability advocates call for policy ambition to be matched with action - People with Disability Australia • CEO statement - eligibility reassessments • Independent review of NDIS funded music and art supports | NDIS • PWDA Welcomes National Action Plan for LGBTIQA+ Health and Wellbeing, Calls for Strong Implementation - People with Disability Australia • Is the Disability Support Pension fit for purpose? Advocates say it needs a transformation • PWDA and community organisations condemn government failure to act on DSP Senate Inquiry Report • Exclusive: NDIS crackdown wrongly withdraws support • Screen me • Federal Register of Legislation - Migration Amendment (Public Interest Criteria 4005 and 4007) Regulations 2024 • Australia Updates Migration Rules for Kids with Disabilities • How perpetrators of domestic violence weaponise disability • Free PWDA Webinar: Australian Digital Health Technologies Overview • Childhood sexual abuse - People with Disability Australia • Our watch resources • NDIS participants still in dark about changes - ABC listen • Major NDIS changes are weeks away. Felicity's worried about what it means for her kids • Tuesday Breakfast - 27 August 2024 - Tuesday Breakfast • Bra maker giving disabled people independence - ABC listen • PWDA “Devastated” at the Passage of the NDIS Amendment Bill - People with Disability Australia • Media Statement from Australia’s Disability Representative Organisations regarding Government Response to Disability Royal Commission today Wednesday 31 July - People with Disability Australia • Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee’s Second Inquiry • Australian Bureau of Statistics releases new disability statistics - People with Disability Australia • Speaking from Experience: Asking workers with a disability what needs to change to address workplace sexual harassment? | Humanitix • Letter to the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Slavery - People with Disability Australia • Article on d/Deaf women experience of violence • AI article on the Conversation • NDIS and Sexual Supports and Services Survey • Joint Statement: Ten Organisations Call for People with Disability’s Access to NDIS Funded Sexuality Services to be Protected - People with Disability Australia • Joint Statement: Disability organisations are calling for urgent funding lifeline to address rising demand for advocacy - People with Disability Australia • More information on Australian Digital Health Agency Consultation • Participant First: Help improve the NDIS • Draft National Autism Strategy Submission - People with Disability Australia • PWDA responds to the Federal Budget: Some immediate relief but little for our future - People with Disability Australia • National Redress Scheme project - People with Disability Australia • NDIS taskforce to crack down on overcharging • ABC article on living with disability and being queer • Media Release: PWDA responds to the NDIS Reform Bill • Disability Support Pension increases • Watch Leading Change Webinar - IWD 2024 • Advancing Women project - People with Disability Australia • Media Release: People with Disability Must be Equal Partners in Reform - People with Disability Australia • Media Release: Westpac Committed to Advancing Women with Disability in the Workplace • Our Future is NOW! - People with Disability Australia • Sign the petition: The NSW Government must adopt the Livable Housing Design Standard • New report: PWDA’s Response to the Disability Royal Commission Final Report • Media Release: PWDA Call for Choice and Control Over Our Bodies, Identities and Sexualities During Mardi Gras - People with Disability Australia • Leading Change – A Webinar for Women with Disability on Leadership | Humanitix • National Disability Data Asset Planned Panels – expressions of interest • Blog - NDIS Review recommends changes to the participant experience • Blog - Proposed changes to regulation and oversight of the NDIS workforce - People with Disability Australia • Response to the Medicare Telehealth Draft Report • Budget Measures to Progress the Disability Agenda in NSW • Joint submission: Recommendations to the Review of Australia’s visa Significant Cost Threshold • PWDA unpacks the NDIS Review report • Night of Nights – The inaugural Gympie All Abilities Ball • PWDA Responds to the NDIS Review: More Supports for People with Disability Welcome • Needs Assessment & Gap Analysis Findings: Advancing Women with Disability in the Workplace • Disability Royal Commission Final Report including Easy Read disability.royalcommission.gov.au • Supporting students with disability | Disability Advocacy Futures Education Program • COVID-19 Position Statement • PWDA Calls for a Radical Response to End Segregation and Discrimination • Inclusion Training • Become a PWDA Member • Stay informed – People with Disability Australia Newsletter • Work with us! | PWDA job listings • People with Disability Australia website • We Are PWDA - LGBTQIA+ People with Disability • What You Need to Know About the Recent NDIS Changes - People with Disability Australia • Survey: Experiences of LGBTQIA+ people with disability - People with Disability Australia • Alert: Severe Weather Warning for parts of New South Wales and Queensland - People with Disability Australia • Queensland Warnings Summary • Homepage | NSW SES • Emergency Preparedness Support for People with Disability- Alerts and Information - People with Disability Australia • Community Briefing: Human Rights Act for NSW Tickets | TryBooking Australia • Individual Disability Advocate - Remote Job in Noosaville, Sunshine Coast QLD - SEEK • PWDA A Voice of Our Own National Online Conference | Wednesday 3 December 2025 1:00pm – 2:30pm AEDT • Parade Entries - Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras • Complete our survey on Digital Health Services Usage and Privacy Concerns for People with Disability - People with Disability Australia • Carers NSW Evacuation Plan • Putting P-CEP into Action | Collaborating 4 Inclusion • Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness • Hazards Near Me app • What to do during a cyclone - ABC Emergency • ABC Emergency • Advocacy Day of Action - Take Action • Australian Digital Health Agency - Event Registration • Australian Digital Health Agency - People with Disability Australia