The WWDACT E-Bulletin, Issue 21/18 is out now. View this e-Bulletin in your browser here. Fill out the form here to subscribe. Message from the Chair Dear Members and Colleagues, Promoting equitable access to health and wellbeing services in the ACT is one of WWDACT’s priority areas under its Strategic Plan. Yet in order to effectively represent the health
The WWDACT E-Bulletin, Issue 15/18 is out now. View this e-Bulletin in your browser here. Fill out the form here to subscribe. Message from the Chair Dear Members and Colleagues, WWDACT and Climate Change When the ex-PM labelled the National Energy Guarantee a ‘game changer’ back in October 2017, I doubt he envisaged how prescient that prediction was. Our
The WWDACT E-Bulletin, Issue 14/18 is out now. View this e-Bulletin in your browser here. Fill out the form here to subscribe. Message from the Chair Dear Members and Colleagues, This week is Science Week and WWDACT congratulates Dr Rose Ahlefeldt who has been named as the ACT Scientist of the Year. We still face a strong
The WWDACT E-Bulletin, Issue 13/18 is out now. View this e-Bulletin in your browser here. Fill out the form here to subscribe. Message from the Chair Dear Members and Colleagues, The beginning of August makes it easy to count how many days have passed since start of 2018. The answer is 211. I have just done this mundane
The WWDACT E-Bulletin, Issue 12/18 is out now. View this e-Bulletin in your browser here. Fill out the form here to subscribe. Message from the Chair Dear Members and Colleagues, WWDACT will be submitting input to a number of government policy papers over the next month, and we invite your feedback to help us in doing this.
The WWDACT E-Bulletin, Issue 11/18 is out now. View this e-Bulletin in your browser here. Fill out the form here to subscribe. Message from the Chair Dear Members and Colleagues In early June, I presented the Lifeline 2-day DV-alert training course on Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) Disability Stream to workers from the Hobart Life Without Barriers (LWB)
The WWDACT E-Bulletin, Issue 10/18 is out now. View this e-Bulletin in your browser here. Fill out the form here to subscribe. Message from the Chair Dear Members and Colleagues, Good news to report! On June 14th at the United Nations 11th Conference of State Parties for the Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities (#COSP11), Australian Human
The WWDACT E-Bulletin, Issue 09/18 is out now. View this e-Bulletin in your browser here. Fill out the form here to subscribe. Message from the Chair Dear Members and Colleagues, The ACT Budget for 2019-20 was handed down on Tuesday 5 June. WWDACT CEO, Clare Moore, braved the budget lockup on our behalf, and has made a rapid summary
The WWDACT E-Bulletin, Issue 08/18 is out now. View this e-Bulletin in your browser here. Fill out the form here to subscribe. Message from the Chair A closer look at the budget from 9 May shows that welfare recipients are the biggest losers. In the last e-bulletin, we had a moment of euphoria and relief that the NDIS funding
The WWDACT E-Bulletin, Issue 07/18 is out now. View this e-Bulletin in your browser here. Fill out the form here to subscribe. Below is an updated Message from the Chair in light of Tuesday’s federal budget. STOP PRESS! On a pre-budget Sunday, at the time of writing today’s e-Bulletin, I was reeling from the news
