The Albanese Government has announced (12 MAY 2025) a significant reshuffle of key social policy portfolios, moving the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) from Social Services to the Health portfolio under Minister Mark Butler. Tanya Plibersek steps in as the...
Public Skills Australia is undertaking a critical project to update the Auslan, Interpreting, and Translating Training Qualifications. This essential project aims to ensure these qualifications reflect the evolving needs of students, professionals, and the wider...
Strategies that not only help hard-of-hearing professionals maintain quality in their work but also encourage a collaborative and adaptive approach in the music industry.
Founder of the new Accessibility Taskforce, Joshua Potter highlights the challenges faced by professionals with invisible disabilities in architecture and proposes a number of strategies to make change. Joshua shares his own experiences as a person with hearing loss...
For an older Australian who is Deaf or hard of hearing, navigating My Aged Care can feel like running an obstacle course designed for someone else. Barriers emerge from the first phone call to the last written notice. Yet, these obstacles can be overcome with the...
Twelve days before Donald Trump took office, Charlie Kirk, media personality and right wing activist, complained on his eponymous show about the presence of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters at emergency press briefings for the Los Angeles fires. Another right...