PWD ACT EO Robert Altamore gave evidence to the Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Health, Ageing and Community Services ‘Inquiry into the Employment of people with disabilities’.

The Inquiry was reported in the Canberra Times

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/advocates-float-parliamentary-internship-program-for-people-with-disabilities-20170523-gwb6ed.html

Also, PWD ACT and ACTCOSS launched Volume 3 of PWD ACT’s journal the Canberra Disability Review.

This edition focused on choice and control, the NDIS, markets and human rights.

You can read about it at

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/act-advocates-urge-rethink-on-national-disability-policies-20170526-gwdoqi.html

You can also read about the establishment and commencement of the Disability Reference Group which will be the ACT Government’s advisory body for people with disabilities.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/the-canberrans-helping-the-government-tackle-some-of-the-biggest-problems-facing-people-with-disabilities-20170508-gw0e2h.html