Of the almost 561,000 students enrolled in Queensland public schools in 2019,more than 103,000 have a disability,a royal commission has been told.
One day,we’ll look back on how we segregated children with different challenges,and feel an enormous amount of shame.
The royal commission into disability abuse has heard harrowing evidence of a boy with autism taking a knife to school to ward off bullies.
Commission hears stories of harrowing physical abuse of students and of teachers dragging disabled children by their arms.
The commission in Townsville was told of cases in which parents fearing for their children's safety made the"agonising decision"to remove them from school.
Children with disability are being bullied and excluded from the school system,new research says.
Australians with a disability living on Newstart payments - after being kicked off the higher level of welfare payment - are struggling to make ends meet.
The former Labor leader says plans to manage conflicts of interest among its commissioners are not good enough.
Paralympic champion Kurt Fearnley says people with disability must be listened to when it comes to concerns about the royal commission.
Scott Morrison declared on Friday that the royal commission into abuse and neglect of the disabled was"so above politics I can't tell you". Really?
The Prime Minister became emotional when he dedicated the royal commission to disabled Australians including his brother-in-law.