Disability Arts History Australia

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• Rhonda Whitaker
• Rhonda Whittaker
• Maria Filippow
• Jenny McCarthy
• Jeff Stewart
• Dinny Downie
• “The Australian Government’s Creative Nation policy released in 1994”
  ‘Creative Nation’ was released in 1994. This was the first ever cultural policy formally developed by an Australian Government. Alongside a number of art forms, the policy included establishments like libraries in its definition of culture and pledged $250 million in funding to cultural organisations.
• Jane Trengove
• “Arts Access Victoria – Annual Report 1994”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Spring 1994”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Winter 1994”
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1995"
• “Arts Access Arts Access Art Day Number 1 1994”
  Arts Access Arts Access Art Day Number 1, 1995 – Description of Arts Access programs for people with intellectual disabilities, Description of the Artistic Program, the Resource and training unit and the EASE program, Art Beat - Performance Art Options for People with Intellectual Disabilities – workshops, Big Bag rock band and Back to Back theatre company - Barbara Doherty, Carol Downey, Claire Teisen, David (no last name listed), Dean Michael, John Tonso, Kerrie (no last name listed), Lyndsay Mason, Maria (no last name listed), Sonia Teuben
• John Tonso
• "Liz Ferrier (2000) Vulnerable Bodies: Creative Disabilities in Contemporary Australian Film. In Ian Craven ed. Australian Cinema in the 1990s. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203045022"
  Reads, in part "The internationally-acclaimed film Shine is one of a number of contemporary Australian movies which portray embattled artists or performers. Reminiscent of earlier works such as Starstruck (1982), Man of Flowers (1983), Malcolm (1986) and Sweetie (1989), and several more recent productions – Proof (1991), Strictly Ballroom (1992), Bad Boy Bubby (1994), The Adventures of Priscilia, Queen of The Desert (1994), Muriel's Wedding (1994), Cosi (1996), Lilian's Story (1996), and Jane Campion's New Zealand/Australian films, An Angel at My Table (1990) and The Piano (1993) – it depicts a disadvantaged individual overcoming setbacks through the passionate and eccentric expression of his creativity. The film and the cycle to which it belongs offers a peculiar vantage point from which to examine the problems and possibilities of Australian cinema in the 1990s."
• “Genni Batterham stages a protest at the opening of Bondi Junction railway station 1979, makes film in 1980”
  When Bondi Junction railway station opened in 1979, Genni Batterham staged a protest about the lack of accessible transportation options for individuals with disabilities. After receiving a multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 1978, Genni became severely disabled very quickly. She did everything in her power to stop the disease's progression and was furious at being "consigned to the world of the disabled." The 1979 Bondi Junction protest was an important moment in the history of the Disability Rights Movement in New South Wales. The Premier, Neville Wran, later said that the experience led him to developing the Disability Taxi Service, the first public transport system designed for people with disability to be launched in Australia. Batterham then made the film ‘Pins and Needles’ (1980) with her husband Kim. Under the direction of Barbara Chobocky and with funding from the Australian Film Commission's Women's Film Fund, the film was screened in five different countries, took home first place at the 1980 Canadian Film Festival, and took home second place at the 1980 New York Film Festival. Genni and Kim would then collaborate on three further films about the phases of her life: Where's the Give and Take? (1981), Artreach (1982), and Riding the Gale (1987).
• “Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter Summer 1994-1995"
  Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter Summer 1994-1995 - Playhouse Access Policy, venue profile, CUB Malthouse, improved wheelchair seating at Melbourne Theatre Company Fairfax Theatre
• “Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter Autimn 1994"
  Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter Autimn 1994 - EASE Consumers' Afternoon meeting for staff and members, low cost tickets to Comedy Festival, venue profile for improved wheelchair seating and access The Fairfax / Melbourne Theatre Company
• Valerio Ciccone
• Sam Lemann
• Sonia Teuben
• Nerrida Weller
• Harold (Jimmy) Fuller
• Eve Lawson
• Dorothy Berry