“The Bolshy Divas present ‘The Other 100 Conversations’ to Australian governments heads”
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- “The Bolshy Divas present ‘The Other 100 Conversations’ to Australian governments heads”
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- In 2011, a group of disability activists called the Bolshy Divas presented a 100-page document, ‘The Other 100 Conversations,’ to heads of all Australian governments who had gathered in Canberra for a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting. The document was addressed “to our elected representatives”. ‘The Other 100 Conversations’ comprised of 100 first-person accounts of participants of disability services in Western Australia, highlighting the lack of support and waiting times experienced.
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- AC00127
- Publisher
- Disability Arts History Australia
- datePublished
- 2010s
- sourceOrganization
- Bolshy Divas
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- inLanguage
- English
- keywords
- Disability Politics and Activism, Education and employment, Health and rehabilitation, Advocacy and awareness raising
- copyrightNotice
- © Disability Arts History Australia, Contributed by Annie Rolfe
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