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“Screen Australia launches an access coordinator training program”
- Kate Mitchell
- Jenny Rickards
- Jelena Telecki
- Jane Muras
- Harry Brazier
- Godwin Bradbeer
- Fiona Cabassi
- Don Young
- David Lomas
- David Coles
- Danielle Micich
- Christopher Hanrahan
- Celia Dann
- Catrine Berlatier
- Carrie Westcott
- Brent Harris
- Archie Naidos
- Annie Irish
- Alan Cooke
- Ahnna Lundstrom
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“Demonstrators protest inadequate funding for disability support in Adelaide, 1992” On the 13th March, 1992, 100 demonstrators gathered in Adelaide to protest inadequate funding for disability support. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health, Housing and Community Services Brian Howe was “heckled” by the group outside an event at Jubilee Hall during a health care expo. Howe agreed later that year to “honour a federal government promise to expand the National Attendant Care Scheme,” that is, after another demonstration by 70 advocates outside Parliament House.
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“Queensland Advocacy Incorporated spearhead campaigns to close institutions” In 1989, when the Bjelke-Petersen-Ahern Government was coming to an end, the newly established Queensland Advocacy Incorporated was spearheading campaigns around the state to close down institutions and provide financing for individual help for individuals with disabilities.
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“The Australian Assistance Plan (1973) encourages grassroots activism” Grassroots activism is said to have been encouraged by the Commonwealth with the new Australian Assistance Plan (AAP) in 1973, which allowed local communities to "prioritise their own welfare planning" and "triggered an explosion in local advocacy in a range of areas, including self-advocacy for people with disability," according to the 2021 Royal Commission.
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"1963 and 1967 sees the introduction of the Disabled Persons Accommodation Act and Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act, respectively." With increasing pressure to provide more services to people with disabilities, the 1960s was a decade of Commonwealth Government initiatives to support organisations providing work and accommodation to people with a disability, including the Disabled Persons Accommodation Act and Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act.
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"The Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service (CRS) established in 1941." Following the first and second world wars, there was better recognition of veteran disability and the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service (CRS) was established.