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Organisation

First Peoples Disability Network

Acronym:
FPDN
Report

Critical condition: the impact of COVID-19 policies, policing and prisons on First Nations communities


This report highlights the ways Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been disproportionately affected by the more punitive and restrictive policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Strategy

COVID-19: Ethical decision-making for First Peoples living with disability


These guidelines outline necessary principles and recommendations specific for First Peoples living with disability and how their treatment is prioritised and managed.
Report

We look after our own mob


This report, commissioned by Positive Partnerships, and supported by First Peoples Disability Network, is the first research on autism in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Position paper

Policy platform federal election 2019


By any measure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities are amongst some of the most disadvantaged of all Australians. This is often because they face multiple barriers to their meaningful participation within their own communities and the wider community. This election policy platform is created with the context of four key reforms that...
Report

The geographic distribution of Indigenous disability


The rate of disability in the Indigenous population is substantially higher than for the Australian population as a whole. Despite the relatively high rates of disability experienced by the Indigenous population, there is surprisingly little research which provides basic descriptive information on where those Indigenous Australians with a disability live and what their demographic characteristics...