Media
Welcoming Disability Media Releases
Nov 2023: Civil Society calls for an end to discrimination against migrants with disabilities
March 2020: It’s time to tackle Australia’s discrimination against migrants with disabilities
News stories featuring ‘Welcoming Disability’
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April 2020: SBS News: Visa rule changes open door to temporary visa applicants with a disability or health condition
March 2020: SBS News: A new campaign hopes to end Australian visa battles for people with disability
Media stories about migration and disability in Australia
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July 2024: Family’s Visa Plea for Chronically Ill Son
July 2024: Why some children with disabilities can’t get permanent visas in Australia
July 2024: Australia accused of discriminating against disabled migrants
July 2024: Perth Family faces deportation because toddler has cystic fibrosis
July 2024: Rethink on ‘outdated’ treatment of migrants with disabilities
Sept 2023: Migration Act prevents UK cop with autistic son from joining WA Police service
Nov 2020: The budding neuroscientist and poet with cerebral palsy who wants to become a doctor
Jan 2020: Decision to deny visa to boy with disabilities set to be overturned
Nov 2019: Five-year-old boy facing deportation from Australia because of mild disability
Sept 2019: Many sick and disabled people are refused permanent visas. We need compassion not discrimination
Aug 2019: Facing deportation, a three-year-old boy with disabilities is now in limbo
May 2019: Visa applicants with a disability facing discrimination, 10 years after being promised change
May 2019: More than 15 families a year face deportation because of one relative's disabilities
May 2019: Australia tries to block disabled people from coming here – it's part of our ugly history
April 2019: Hearing-impaired Bhutanese teen faces 'world of isolation' as deportation from Australia looms
April 2019: Deportation would spell 'a world of isolation' for family's hearing-impaired son
Nov 2016: Disability a 'burden' to Australian community, immigration rules