Some of Our Parts

The Hallmark Disability Research Initiative presents a free one hour lecture with speakers Beth Gaze and Lisa Waddington. This lecture will cover current disability discrimination law for European and Australian jurisdictions. It will then cover the current major gaps in law and suggestions for future law reform. There will be a discussion on the future directions in the field of disability discrimination law.

Professor Lisa Waddington

Maastricht University

Lisa Waddington holds the European Disability Forum Chair in European Disability Law. Professor Waddington’s principal area of interest lies in European and comparative disability law, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and European and comparative equality law in general. In 2000, she received an ASPASIA award from the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). Between 2004 and 2007 she coordinated a large EU research and education project on European non-discrimination law. Professor Waddington is currently a visiting professor at the Melbourne Law School.

Professor Beth Gaze

Beth Gaze is a professor in the Melbourne Law School and has published extensively on anti-discrimination law, including employment discrimination, and on tribunals, and has conducted socio-legal research in both areas. She has acted as an expert adviser to parliament and is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law. With Anna Chapman, she is presently engaged in a major project on the intersection between provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and anti-discrimination law.

The event is FREE an you can register here.

Room 1.09, Level One,

Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street

Carlton, Vic 3053

Australia

Tuesday, 24 March 2015 from 4:45 PM to 6:00 PM

Great FREE event happening on Tuesday night 6pm-7pm, Media Representation of Disability with Professor at the University of Melbourne.

Beth Haller is Professor of Journalism/New Media and the Graduate Director of the Communication Management master’s program in the Department of Mass Communication & Communication Studies at Towson University in Maryland, where she has been a full-time faculty member since 1996. She is the author of Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media (Advocado Press, 2010). She is also the former co-editor of the Society for Disability Studies’ scholarly journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, (2003-2006). She is adjunct faculty for the City University of New York’s Disability Studies master’s program and for York University’s Critical Disability Studies graduate program in Toronto.

Haller currently maintains a blog on disability issues in the news, Media dis&dat. She has been researching media images of disability since 1991, when she did a master’s thesis at the University of Maryland-College Park on the coverage of Deaf persons in The Washington Post and New York Times. Her Ph.D. dissertation at Temple University investigated elite news media coverage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

RSVP here.

This venue is wheelchair accessible.

University of Melbourne
234 Queensberry St
219 Theatre
Carlton, VIC 3053

Tuesday, 24 February 2015 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (AEDT)

This event will be audio-recorded. The recording and a transcript will be made available on www.socialequity.unimelb.edu.au within a few days of its conclusion.

Get ready to impress your tastebuds with some new flavours coming to Monash Clayton. We’ll have some food trucks including Yogurddicition, The Little Mushroom Co and the Curry Truck at various locations around campus. Grab your lunch buddies and try something different for lunch.

See the Monash Food Truck website for schedule and locations.

Are you aged 18-24 and living with muscle, bones or joint pain? Do you want to connect with others in a similar situation? Arthritis and Osteoporosis Victoria are hosting a Youth Workshop to find out what you need.

The workshop has been organised with young people and will be run by young people. The event will be very relaxed and informal and will involve some discussion groups to capture your thoughts. These groups are led by young people with musculoskeletal conditions who really get it. The topics for discussion are:

• What are the important issues you have to deal with?
• What things do you need and what to know about?
• How do you want products, services and information delivered? (eg face-to-face, social media, phone apps, text message, website etc)

Important things to know about the workshop

• Sunday 22nd March at 1pm
• Arthritis and Osteoporosis Victoria 263-265 Kooyong Road, Elsternwick
• It’s FREE
• There’s a FREE (and delicious) lunch
• Meet others who are in a similar situation
• FREE onsite parking
• Youth led
• If you want, you can bring a friend or partner for support

Absolutely NO lectures or formal presentations

For more information see the Arthritis Victoria website.

This camp enabled young people on the Autism Spectrum to enable others to say ‘I Can’ to life’s opportunities, all from the horse’s mouth!

– Daniel Giles, I CAN Ambassador

Have fun whilst challenging yourself

Build your confidence

Connect with others

I CAN Network’s young adults camp, hosted by I CAN’s tertiary networks, will empower young adults (aged 18 – 30) on the Autism Spectrum to live the ‘I Can’ attitude. It will equip participants with the confidence to be leaders in our growing network. I CAN’s Camps are unique. They are run entirely by young people on the Spectrum for young people on the Spectrum. Here’s some of what you will get up to on camp:

• Games and random fun
• Team-building/ outdoor activities, including a bonfire
• Expressing I CAN’ – an exhibition of the ‘I Can’ attitude made by participants’ writing, drawing, music and construction
• Mentoring Master Class (an optional workshop for those young people ready and willing to take their mentoring or uni network to the next step)
• TEDxICAN – a showcase of ideas supporting the #AWEtismRethink
• AWE Ball (Theme: ‘Dress to Obsess’) – don your favourite obsession on the Saturday evening!
• ‘I CAN’ Talks – talks delivered by participants on what they’re going to say ‘I Can’ to

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST TODAY!

Register your interest by 25 February. After registering interest, one of our Camp Mentors* will give you a call where you will hear more about the I CAN Camps and the process of completing registration. Please note that the camp costs $150.

If you’ve got any queries, please contact James Ong (Coordinator, I CAN Tertiary Program) at hello@icannetwork.com.au or on 0432 405 384

To give you some inspiration, see our #AWEtismRethink video made at our I CAN Young Adults Camp in April 2014.

**All Camp Mentors have Working With Children Checks. Our team includes a Wellbeing Team with a registered psychologist and Mentors trained in First Aid and Mental Health First Aid.

The fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 to 20 March 2015.

CSW59 will focus on reviewing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BfPA) including current challenges that affect its implementation and the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women.CSW59 marks a major milestone in the history of CSW and presents an historic and once in a lifetime opportunity for women and girls with disabilities. The urgent need to strengthen efforts to address the rights and needs of women and girls with disabilities in all 12 critical areas of the BfPA along with all aspects of the post 2015 development agenda, has been recognised by Heads of State and Governments from around the world.

CSW59 offers women with disabilities the unique opportunity to ensure that disability and gender equality are mainstreamed as cross-cutting issues throughout the whole future development agenda.

The Commission invites interested organisations to submit proposals to attend the first week of the Session, and that meet the criteria of the Commission’s international participation program. Information on how to apply for funding is available here.

Proposals should:

• Disclose any other sources of funding available to them
• Indicate need and justification for funding including any particular needs related to location and impact of disability on travel costs
• Address each of the criteria identified in the Commission’s published template for nominations.

Proposals close Friday 23rd January 2015 COB.

Applications for funding should be sent to: disability@humanrights.gov.au

For more information see the CSW website.

Conversational English Programs are beginning next month, with a range of different kinds of classes available.

These classes are a set of extra-curricular language activities aimed at developing the global competences of domestic and international students and enhancing the student experience through cross cultural communication and making new friends!

Classes for 2015 include:

Let’s Chat MUISS!

• Groups of 30 students + 3 student facilitators
• Structured but flexible, fun classes addressing conversation starters and other themes identified by Monash students
• Last session in collaboration with Monash Sport includes games and a BBQ lunch
• Clayton campus only
• One 1h session once per week, Week 3 to Week 11, Semesters 1 and 2 – Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 4pm-5pm or 5pm-6pm
• Open to all Monash students
• Registration open from February 16 to March 6

Let’s Chat BusEco!

• Free conversational English sessions to improve communication skills
• Groups of 30 students + 3 facilitators
• Structured but flexible, fun classes addressing conversation starters and other themes identified by Monash students
• Last session in collaboration with Monash Sport includes games and a BBQ lunch
• Caulfield campus
• Open to Monash Business School (Faculty of Business and Economics) students only
• One 1hr session once per week, Week 3 to Week 11, Semesters 1 and 2
• Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 4pm-5pm or 5pm-6pm
• Registration open from February 16 to March 6 with a new intake of registrations during Survival Week (Week 4)

Peer Support

• Help with written or spoken academic work
• Free, one to one, ‘drop in’ 20 min sessions – no bookings necessary
• John Medley Library, Campus Centre, Level 1, 21 Chancellor’s Walk, Clayton
• All students welcome
• Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 11am-2pm, Week 3 – Week 12, Semesters 1 and 2

Aussie Connect

• Social interactions with local community in collaboration with Monash City Council
• Once per month social group gathering
• On Clayton campus and various council’s venues
• Semester 2 only

There will also be a range of workshops and seminars across the semester looking at topics of cross cultural communication and international education. Watch this space for more information in early February!

A public memorial service will be held to rejoice in the life, achievements and legacy of the fabulously dishonourable comedian, journalist and disability activist Stella Young.

The party will be held on Friday 19th December at 11am at the Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne City. Federation Square will be offering an interactive screening program honouring Stella’s life and work from 9am – 3.30pm. The memorial service is open to everyone, and admittance will be on a first come, first served basis. We strongly advise getting there early to secure a seat. Doors will be open from 10am for an 11am service (60min duration). All guests are advised to please enter via the accessible entrance on Collins Street.

The organisers will make every possible effort to meet the access requirements of all guests. The service will offer Auslan interpreting, Live Captioning, Audio Description, water bowls for Companion animals, a hearing loop, additional accessible toilets and seating choices for people who use wheelchairs.

Please visit www.artsaccess.com.au for further access and transport information.

People from Stella’s home-town of Stawell are extended an extra heart-felt and warm welcome.

As the Melbourne Town Hall has limited capacity – and in recognition that some people will be unable to travel to the service – it will be simulcast live at Federation Square, on ABC News 24 & on digital radio 774 ABC Victoria.

The dress code is FABULOUS. If possible, we’d love you to wear red and white spotted shoes, bright colours and little to no black. Pink or purple hair is a definite bonus, as are the incorporation of chenille stems.

A Crip tribute to Stella Young is an evening of readings by crips and non-crips of Stella’s work or of letter’s we have penned to Stella to commemorate and celebrate what a great woman and amazing disability activist she was. Join us and read something, just sit and listen or share your favourite memories of Stella. Any money raised will go to Domestic Violence Victoria, as per the Young family’s request. www. dvvic.org.au

Confirmed readers include:

• Angie Jones
• Clem Ford
• Kate Hood
• Kath Duncan
• Carly Findlay
• Jax-Jacki Brown
• Ross Cottee

Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra- our house crip band!

Doors open at 7.30pm and the readings start at 8pm
Hares and Hyenas
63 Johnston Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065

This event is fully wheelchair accessible, but sadly this event will NOT be Auslan interpreted.

On Thursday December 11th at 7am, Dylan Alcott will attempt to break the world record for the longest continuous playing of wheelchair tennis, playing for 24 consecutive hours. Dylan is the current world number 4 wheelchair tennis player. and is a former Paralympic and World Champion winning wheelchair basketballer. Dylan is completing the challenge to attempt to raise $100,000 collectively for two charities he holds very close to his heart, The Starlight Foundation and Variety – the Children’s Charity, with all proceeds being split between both.

Thursday 11th December (7am) – Friday 12th December (7am)

Where: Tennis Australia – Melbourne Park (home of the Australian Open) – Court 24 (new National Tennis Academy side)

Who: Dylan will be playing with many sporting stars and celebrities from across Australia, including basketballer Elizabeth Cambage, actress Olympia Valance, AFL stars Chris Dawes, Jack Watts and Tom Hawkins, professional tennis players Storm Sanders and Luke Saville amongst others.

(Note: Absolutely anybody can come and have a hit with Dylan on the day, and we strongly encourage it. There will even be spare wheelchairs on site to try wheelchair tennis. If you would like to come down and ‘pay to play’ against Dylan, please email info@dylanalcottofficial.com for more details).