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Qantas Concession Card applicable to amputees
The Qantas Carer Concession Card is issued to people with significant support requirements who through a physical, sensory, intellectual, cognitive or psycho-social disability are unable to travel on the aircraft without the full-time assistance of a carer A person is...
Sexuality, Disability and Being Loved As You Are
Disability and LGBTIQ advocate Jax Jacki Brown’s journey to find love has been rewarding, but not always easy. She writes about the barriers people with disability face when exploring their sexuality, and the importance of strength-based sex education. If you talk...
Elderly yachty amputee succeeds in overturning appointment of guardian
Justice Helen Wood ruled the Tasmanian Government had made a legal error in granting powers to the public guardian to stop [J] from returning to his boat. The board had wrongly found that he had a disability and was unable to make reasonable judgments about his...