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Community conversation guide: International Day of People with Disability 2025


The International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD) aims to promote community awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with disability. This guide helps guides communities to have conversations about IDPwD and disability more broadly including talking about disability in workplaces, schools, universities and community groups.
Report

Insights on refugees with disability in Australia

Slamet Thohari


This report explores the lived experiences of newly arrived refugees with disability in Australia. It points to a series of intersecting issues that both contribute to and hinder their settlement and integration. It focuses on their experiences in relation to social connections, functional dimensions of integration, and rights and responsibilities.
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Guides for employers and employees


This webpage contains a guide for employers and a guide for employees with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The guide for employers contains information about MS and employing people with MS. The guide for employees contains information about disclosing MS to an employer, management of symptoms at work and implications for career pathways.
Fact sheet

What is deafblindness?


This webpage describes what deafblindness is, the different forms of deafblindness and the diversity of the deafblind community.
Guide

Questions for Disability Employment Services (DES)


This document is intended to help prompt ideas and questions to ask when investigating a Disability Employment Service (DES) for a family member. It provides a list of questions to ask the DES in relation to the job seeker and their services. Questions can be adapted based on the individual’s unique circumstances. It also provides...