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Australia’s Yarra unveils Universal Design and Disability Inclusion Policy disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Australia’s Yarra unveils Universal Design and Disability Inclusion Policy

Australia’s Yarra unveils Universal Design and Disability Inclusion Policy

About one in five Yarra residents, roughly 21,000 people, has a disability, impairment or long-term health condition. Around 8,500 more care for someone who does, without pay. 

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Summit spotlights sexual violence and demands action disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Global stroke burden keeps rising despite falling rates

Global stroke burden keeps rising despite falling rates

A new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study in Neuroepidemiology looks closely at a striking contradiction in global stroke prevention: even as age-standardized stroke rates have fallen substantially...

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Summit spotlights sexual violence and demands action disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Summit spotlights sexual violence and demands action

Summit spotlights sexual violence and demands action

Over 400 leading international experts, survivor advocates, researchers, frontline practitioners and policymakers will gather in Melbourne for the inaugural International Freedom from Sexual Violence...

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Labor backs more participation with all-abilities grants disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Labor backs more participation with all-abilities grants

Labor backs more participation with all-abilities grants

Labor is making sport and recreation more accessible for people with disability across regional Victoria. Minister for Community Sport Ros Spence today announced 73 grants, totaling over $1.3...

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Voting guide released, highlighting rights for persons with disabilities #USElection #Disability disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Voting guide released, highlighting rights for persons with disabilities

Voting guide released, highlighting rights for persons with disabilities

The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, in collaboration with the National Disability Rights Network and the law firm of McDermott Will & Schulte, has released an updated edition of their guide to...

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OSCE calls for stronger Ombudsperson to safeguard rights disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
OSCE calls for stronger Ombudsperson to safeguard rights

OSCE calls for stronger Ombudsperson to safeguard rights

When people believe their rights have been violated by a public institution, they need somewhere they can turn for help. The Ombudsperson plays an important role in protecting those rights and making...

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New accessibility rules for public transport disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
New accessibility rules for public transport

New accessibility rules for public transport

New accessibility rules for public transport have commenced, helping make public transport safer, easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities.

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Aging weakness and mobility loss go far beyond muscle disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Aging weakness and mobility loss go far beyond muscle

Aging weakness and mobility loss go far beyond muscle

An older patient mentions that the stairs have become harder. They have stopped carrying the shopping in from the car. Last month they had a fall in the kitchen.

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UN urges States to address on unlawful deaths of older people disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…

UN urges States to address on unlawful deaths of older people

Unlawful deaths of older persons are alarmingly under-reported, under-investigated and under-researched worldwide, a UN expert said, calling for urgent measures to strengthen investigative and...

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Research funding to improve health care for persons with disabilities disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Research funding to improve health care for persons with disabilities

Research funding to improve health care for persons with disabilities

Persons with disabilities will benefit from $30 million in Australian Government funding for research into improving their health and wellbeing and access to health care.

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Age must never diminish rights: UN expert disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Age must never diminish rights: UN expert

Age must never diminish rights: UN expert

Older women around the world face violence, exploitation and neglect, yet remain largely invisible in the laws, policies, data and services designed to protect women overall, a UN independent human...

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Sydney man charged for alleged role in $1.8M NDIS fraud disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Sydney man charged for alleged role in $1.8M NDIS fraud

Sydney man charged for alleged role in $1.8M NDIS fraud

A Sydney man, 36, has been charged over his alleged role in a sophisticated $1.8 million fraud, following an investigation by the Australian Government Fraud Fusion Taskforce (FFT).

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Gene link to inherited blindness discovered disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Gene link to inherited blindness discovered

Gene link to inherited blindness discovered

Faults in a gene known for causing a devastating childhood metabolic illness can also cause a form of inherited blindness in adults, an international study co-led by scientists at the University of...

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Sport4All breaks barriers for persons with disabilities disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Sport4All breaks barriers for persons with disabilities

Sport4All breaks barriers for persons with disabilities

Wagga Wagga may be known as the City of Good Sports but there are still unseen barriers to participation in sport for persons with disabilities.

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Megan Spindler-Smith appointed CEO of disability advocacy group disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
Megan Spindler-Smith appointed CEO of disability advocacy group

Megan Spindler-Smith appointed CEO of disability advocacy group

People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has announced the appointment of Megan Spindler-Smith as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). 

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New scholarship opens doors to inclusive education training #Education #Disability disabilityinsider.com/2026/1…
New scholarship opens doors to inclusive education training

New scholarship opens doors to inclusive education training

A new scholarship is offering an early childhood teacher the rare opportunity to complete a fully funded master’s degree while being paid to develop specialist skills supporting children with...

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22,000 children face long road to recovery, Nepal-China floods #Disaster #Nepal disabilityinsider.com/2026/0…
22,000 children face long road to recovery, Nepal-China floods

22,000 children face long road to recovery, Nepal-China floods

Children are starting to return to school one month after devastating floods tore through Nepal, but thousands still continue to face displacement, trauma and a recovery expected to take months and...

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New research finds shared values, yet many feel drifting apart #MentalHealth #Health disabilityinsider.com/2026/0…
New research finds shared values, yet many feel drifting apart

New research finds shared values, yet many feel drifting apart

Nearly two-thirds of people (64%) believe we are becoming more disconnected from each other, despite recognising the positive impact connection and belonging have on their mental health, according to...

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Cultural, inclusive spaces open doors for people with learning disabilities disabilityinsider.com/2026/0…
Cultural, inclusive spaces open doors for people with learning disabilities

Cultural, inclusive spaces open doors for people with learning disabilities

A new Horizon Europe project will bring together psychologists, disability experts, cultural institutions, designers, technologists and policymakers to rethink how people with learning disabilities...

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More young adults are having strokes, study reveals disabilityinsider.com/2026/0…
More young adults are having strokes, study reveals

More young adults are having strokes, study reveals

Stroke is becoming more common among younger adults, according to a study published September 23, 2026, in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers found that...

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