@WWDACT

Women With Disabilities ACT (WWDACT) is a Disabled Person’s Organisation & systemic advocacy organisation in Canberra, ACT #StrongWomenStrongVoices

 Australian Capital Territory
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Joined September 2011
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CYDA@CydaAu22 Jan 2023
👋Shout out to everyone heading to Canberra today for our National Youth Disability Summit! ✈️✈️ And a special shout out to our amazing Youth Council for putting together such an incredible youth-led event. cyda-nyds.com/codesign-2023 See you at the gala! #NYDSummit23
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It’s important to understand that for some women with #disability, they simply CAN’T leave. Particularly if the perpetrator is also their carer/support person. @QandA @WWDA_AU
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@WomenEnabled #Covid had a disproportionate impact on women + women with disabilities. Those from minorities with disabilities, included high levels of violence, and our basic needs were ignored. #COSP15
Women Enabled International Delegate and ISL interpreter

ALT Women Enabled International Delegate and ISL interpreter

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Good to see strong youth representation in the Australian civil society delegation to this week's #COSP15. #EveryoneIncluded
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🇦🇺 is pleased to offer strong support for the re-election of @RosemaryKayess - a powerful human rights advocate & esteemed academic - to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (#CRPD). We seek the valuable support of states parties at 🗳️elections on 🗓️14 June.
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From me, @gemcarey, @Ellie_Malbon and @Jen_Hargrave in @ConversationEDU: how the #AdministrativeBurden of the #NDIS has gendered implications - thanks to partners @WWDACT and @WDVtweet 1/ theconversation.com/women-ma…

Women make up half the disability population but just over a third of NDIS recipients

While men and women experience disability at similar rates, men are more likely to be diagnosed with disabilities that are more straightforward to gain access to the NDIS for.

theconversation.com
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Replying to @ACOSS @RNBreakfast
Stage Three Tax Cuts are costing the Budget $16b per annum, 2/3 are going to men in top 10%. We were already collecting 9th lowest revenue base amongst OECD countries. Second wealthiest country in world yet have 3 mill inc women & children in poverty & big gaps in care services
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ACTCOSS today expressed its deep concern about the Federal Government’s proposed voter ID reforms which if passed, will further entrench those that are already struggling. Read the media release: actcoss.org.au/news-events/m…
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Yes!!! This. Just make it standard open ended & welcoming for EVERY one.
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Chatting to Tom Elliot on Melbourne 3AW just after 5 30 about people with disabilities being seen on our screens in proportion to our percentage of the population. A reasonable ask, so why do Govt and private advertisers not deliver.
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The @Greens and I oppose the upcoming #NDIS legislation. As it's currently written it'll: ❌ be harder for disabled people to get on the NDIS ❌be easier for the gov to stop funding supports ❌ give the CEO of the NDIA the ability to change a plan without participant permission.
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The ABC is partnering with International Day of People with Disability in a three-week campaign to showcase a range of stories by and about people with disability across ABC websites, radio, social media, TV, and iview. abc.net.au/news/2021-11-18/b…
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It's Women's Health Week "women with disability (32%)... are around 3 times as likely as women without disability (9.2%)" to experience high or very high levels of psychological distress. (AIHW) #WomensHealth #DisabilityRights #MentalHealthMatters
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#WomensHealth #DisabledWomen "Women with disability are around 7 times as likely as women without disability to assess their health as fair or poor." (AIHW)
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MEDIA RELEASE: Disability Advocates Condemn Use Of #UnderlyingHealthCondition As COVID Death Explainer Disability advocates are lashing gov't ministers & bureaucrats for victim-blaming people dying from #COVID19 bit.ly/3tnw9Vr
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"The pressure .. is immense (to return to work.) .. (I need to) detail what my condition is and why I am vulnerable... a total breach of my privacy." - Woman* with disabilities (@WWDACT COVID-19 Report 2020) #WomensHealth #DisabilityRights
A woman is having a needle put into her arm. She sits in a wheelchair, has dark hair and is looking at the needle.

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Commissioner @June_Oscar speaking truth at #womenssafetysummit: "Women and children with disabilities are always more vulnerable.... It compounds on top of race, sex, inequality and other forms of marginalisation... 1/
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It's Women's Health Week "women with disability (32%)... are around 3 times as likely as women without disability (9.2%)" to experience high or very high levels of psychological distress. (AIHW) #WomensHealth #DisabilityRights #MentalHealthMatters
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Natalie Wade from @AfdoOffice describes the system of both #DSP & #NDIS as "adversarial". It puts a heavy burden on people with #disability to fight for our rights as individuals. That's why it's so important to fight that fight collectively, as we are doing now. #DSPinquiry
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Accessibility shouldn't be an afterthought.
National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA)@NEDA_PeakBody30 Aug 2021
Sunshine Coast hospital has to fix costly design flaws after man who was blind posthumously wins discrimination case abc.net.au/news/2021-08-31/s…
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