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Pro Bono Australia #2022Impact25 Awards

40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians 2021

NSW Law Society Journal: "People with disability in the legal industry: time for an attitudinal evolution" (14 December 2022)

The Gaurdian: "Advocates say people with disability are increasingly ‘forgotten’ in emergency planning" (11 April 2022)

Sydney Morning Herald: "NDIS service fears over wage decision" (17 March 2022)

VICE Magazine: "For People with Disabilities, Sex Work is Still Grounded in Stigma" (1 March 2022)

ABC News [Live Cross-Over Interview]: People with disability facing uncertainty over religious discrimination bill (10 Feb 2022)

VICE Magazine: "Australia’s Religious Discrimination Bill Could Make Life Hell for People With Disability" (10 Feb 2022)

SBS News: "We’re being used as tools’: Multicultural groups reject support for religious discrimination bill" (9 Feb 2022)

PWDA: Opening Statement to the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs Legislation Committee Inquiry into the NDIS (Particpant Service Gaurantee) Bill 2021

PWDA: Evidence and Submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into the Disability Support Pension

SBS News: "Government urged to suspend mutual obligations for job seekers amid COVID-19 surge" (12 Jan 2022)

The Australian: "NDIS patients face ‘traumatic’ appeals process" (19 Nov 2021)

Disability Support Guide: "Disability support workers need to be vaccinated by the end of the month" (12 Nov 2021)

Mirage News: ''Disability advocates to front key NDIS inquiry" (12 Nov 2021)

The Gaurdian: "NDIS providers used unauthorised restraints on clients over a million times in 12 months" (10 Nov 2021)

SBS News: "Multicultural LGBTIQ+ people face violence in their own communities, survey shows" 27 October 2021

ABC National Radio: "Concerns for people with disabilities and lowered immunity as lockdown lifts"' (11 Oct 2021)

The Gaurdian: "Injured woman says she drained super to survive while waiting years for disability support pension" (6 Sept 2021)

SBS News: "Disability Support Pension applicants are being forced into poverty, inquiry hears"' (6 Sept 2021)

Star Oberver: "UK home office tells gay Afghan that he could be sent back to Afghanistan" (27 Aug 2021)

QNews: "Gay Afghanistan man’s boyfriend murdered and mutilated by Taliban" (26 Aug 2021)

Disability Support Guide: "All children with disability as young as 12 can now receive a COVID-19 vaccine" (26 Aug 2021)

Pink Advocate: "''They will kill me without even thinking’: Gay Afghans living in fear" (23 Aug 2021)

Q News: "Charities call on Australia to take LGBTIQ Afghan refugees" (23 Aug 2021)

Disability Support Guide: "Disability sector delivers ultimatum to Government and their vaccination program" (19 Aug 2021)

SBS News: 'Wise to be thinking now': Calls for Australia to consider the burden of long COVID (30 July 2021)

SBS News: "Disability advocates still worried despite proposed changes to NDIS independent assessments" (7 July 2021)

ABC National Radio: "Dozens more COVID cases in Sydney" (5 July 2021)

The Australian: "NDIS checks ‘a danger to disabled' " (26 April 2021)

The Gaurdian: "Australians with a disability ‘forgotten’ in coronavirus vaccine rollout, advocates say" (22 April 2021)

The ABC: "Lily wishes able-bodied people knew the truth about how she thinks of her wheelchair" (2 April 2021)

Pedestrian TV's #27Pedestrians Docuseries

Proposed changes to the NDIS (PIAC)

Terms of engagement for NDIS Minister Reynolds from the disability community

#WeNeedMoreTime: Extend the Disability Royal Commission

#MakeItSafeToSpeak - Disability Royal Commission

Minimum accessibility standards introduced into the National Construction Code

Disability sector statement on the Australian Government’s planned reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

Social Security Rights Review

Launch of ACON's Queer Ability Toolkit

AGMC Statement on Afghanistan

Tik Tok: The balkâ of pre-precolonial Philippines