News items from International Day of People with a Disability 2009

Turn up your Radio!! 3CR celebrates International Day of People With A Disability 2009 with a 12 hour broadcast . Faaolo Utumapu kicks off the day with highlights from The Field Great Debate – Is Life Improving for People with Disabilities? Feat Stella Young (No Limits) Julie Phillips (Manager, Disability Discrimination Legal Service) David Craig (Executive Officer, Action for Community Living) and Adam Jones (Volunteer Solicitor, Disability Discrimination Legal Service). Click the Recent Podcasts link below for more audio from the dayFile Download (59:58 min / 28 MB)

Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O’Connell present the Breakfast Show featuring a critical review of media coverage on disability. Guests include Lesley Hall, CEO AFDO – Is genuine reform on the political agenda?, Shut Out, National Disability Strategy, Immigration Review, and Lifelong care productivity Commission Inquiry. Tom Shakespeare, British sociologist and activist on disability identity.File Download (31:40 min / 15 MB)

Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O’Connell present the Breakfast Show featuring a critical review of media coverage on disability. Guests include Lesley Hall, CEO AFDO – Is genuine reform on the political agenda?, Shut Out, National Disability Strategy, Immigration Review, and Lifelong care productivity Commission Inquiry. Tom Shakespeare, British sociologist and activist on disability identity.File Download (31:40 min / 15 MB)

Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O’Connell speak with Rebecca Feldman, Project Officer with Youth Disability Advisory Service about LiveAccess – accessible venues for live music and Carman Parsons, Referrals Access and Equity Policy Officer at Victoria Legal Aid-making justice more accessible and Chris Morris about Launch of DiVine – Victoria’s first online community for and by people with a disability.File Download (29:26 min / 14 MB)

Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O’Connell speak with Rebecca Feldman, Project Officer with Youth Disability Advisory Service about LiveAccess – accessible venues for live music and Carman Parsons, Referrals Access and Equity Policy Officer at Victoria Legal Aid-making justice more accessible and Chris Morris about Launch of DiVine – Victoria’s first online community for and by people with a disability.File Download (29:26 min / 14 MB)

Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O’Connell present the Breakfast Show. The Front Page – a critical review of media coverage on disability on IDPWD and an events roundup. Adaptive Tech Talk with Scott Nixon and Deb Lewis (Statewide Vision Resource Centre).File Download (28:49 min / 13 MB)

Helen Gwilliam and Rachel O’Connell present the Breakfast Show. The Front Page – a critical review of media coverage on disability on IDPWD and an events roundup. Adaptive Tech Talk with Scott Nixon and Deb Lewis (Statewide Vision Resource Centre).File Download (28:49 min / 13 MB)

Campaign to change human service policy and practice related to young people in nursing homes (YPINH) Somewhere to live, Someone to love and Something to do with Stuart, Jason, Anje and Michelle from the Summer FoundationFile Download (22:49 min / 11 MB)

Campaign to change human service policy and practice related to young people in nursing homes (YPINH) Somewhere to live, Someone to love and Something to do with Stuart, Jason, Anje and Michelle from the Summer Foundation File Download (22:49 min / 11 MB)

Rebecca, Stuart, Jess and Liz from the Youth Disability Advocacy Services (YDAS) talk about the situation facing people with disabilities trying to access Uni’s and Tafe’sFile Download (36:51 min / 17 MB)

Rebecca, Stuart, Jess and Liz from the Youth Disability Advocacy Services (YDAS) talk about the situation facing people with disabilities trying to access Uni’s and Tafe’sFile Download (36:51 min / 17 MB)

Featuring a panel: Kerry Presser- National Disability Services Victoria, Adam Jones – Volunteer Solicitor, Disability Discrimination Legal Service, Denise Allen – former State Member of Parliament. Includes Anne and Lilian’s story – Anne and Lilian became friends 20 years ago when they met through a program that matched people leaving long term institutional care with people in the community, to foster friendships. Anne and Lilian talk about their friendship.File Download (86:47 min / 15 MB)

Kon Kiryakudya (President of Wheelchair Handball Victoria and a DJ with Club Wild) – talks about the importance of sport in his life. Aussie Hands, Elizabeth Serpell (Vice-President) and Kate Doughty (patron) talk about the Melbourne-based Aussie Hands Foundation, which supports and provides information for people born with a hand difference. Angela, Cameron and Tanya from Compass Clubhouse talk about this unique club in Northcote for people recovering from Acquired Brain Injury, where the members run the club and manage their own recovery. Jim Blake- Landscape designer and musician from Lakes Entrance in Gippsland, Victoria. Five years ago Jim had an accident which left him with quadriplegia and changed everything about his life. Jim shares his story and his blues-singing and harmonicaFile Download (61:03 min / 28 MB)

Kon Kiryakudya (President of Wheelchair Handball Victoria and a DJ with Club Wild) – talks about the importance of sport in his life. Aussie Hands, Elizabeth Serpell (Vice-President) and Kate Doughty (patron) talk about the Melbourne-based Aussie Hands Foundation, which supports and provides information for people born with a hand difference. Angela, Cameron and Tanya from Compass Clubhouse talk about this unique club in Northcote for people recovering from Acquired Brain Injury, where the members run the club and manage their own recovery. Jim Blake- Landscape designer and musician from Lakes Entrance in Gippsland, Victoria. Five years ago Jim had an accident which left him with quadriplegia and changed everything about his life. Jim shares his story and his blues-singing and harmonicaFile Download (61:03 min / 28 MB)

Live Outside Broadcast from Access My Ability – a joint Travellers Aid and Wheelchair Sports Victoria event at Melbourne’s Federation Square to raise awareness and to acknowledge the abilities and achievements of people with a disability in the wider community. Kon Kiryakudya and Helen Gwilliam speak with Wheelchair Sports Victoria CEO Rob Anderson and Travellers Aid CEO Jodie WillmerFile Download (30:46 min / 14 MB)

Live Outside Broadcast from Access My Ability – a joint Travellers Aid and Wheelchair Sports Victoria event at Melbourne’s Federation Square to raise awareness and to acknowledge the abilities and achievements of people with a disability in the wider community. Kon Kiryakudya and Helen Gwilliam speak with Wheelchair Sports Victoria CEO Rob Anderson and Travellers Aid CEO Jodie WillmerFile Download (30:46 min / 14 MB)

Phineas Meere and Paul Gianni (Grit Media – The Boldness) in discussion with Bronwyn Morkham (Australian Federation of Disability Organisations) on the Shut Out Report and the UN Convention on Rights for People with DisabilitiesFile Download (28:29 min / 13 MB)

Phineas Meere and Paul Gianni (Grit Media – The Boldness) in discussion with Bronwyn Morkham (Australian Federation of Disability Organisations) on the Shut Out Report and the UN Convention on Rights for People with DisabilitiesFile Download (28:29 min / 13 MB)

Phineas Meere and Paul Gianni (Grit media- The Boldness) in discussion with Garry Prigg (The Cerebral Palsy Education Centre) and Paul Deany (Disability Rights Fund) on International development and People with DisabilitiesFile Download (26:51 min / 12 MB)

Phineas Meere and Paul Gianni (Grit media- The Boldness) in discussion with Garry Prigg (The Cerebral Palsy Education Centre) and Paul Deany (Disability Rights Fund) on International development and People with DisabilitiesFile Download (26:51 min / 12 MB)