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Human Rights
Sexuality and Health
Sexual and Reproductive Rights Webinar – Recording now available!

December 21, 2022

Bright blue background with white text that reads Sexual and Reproductive Rights for People with disability, Supporting each other, to support ourselves
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Leadership and Participation
WWDA LEAD Mentoring Welcome Packs

December 20, 2022

Photo of some of the items on the registration page at the Leadership week. One document is called the Leadership statement and some USB's with the WWDA logo
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Leadership and Participation
WWDA Youth Podcast with Claire Bertholli – Youth Leadership

December 19, 2022

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Leadership and Participation
WWDA Members announced as finalists in National Awards for Disability Leadership!

December 1, 2022

An image of a gold statue, with yellow, blue and green smoke around it and a dark blue background. Text: The National Awards for Disability Leadership, Finalists. #DisabilityAwards2022
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2022 WWDA Annual General Meeting

November 28, 2022

Purple background with white text that reads WWDA Annual General Meeting AGM
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Leadership and Participation
WWDA LEAD Leadership Week success!

November 22, 2022

A landscape photo of the committee members and WWDA staff sitting around circle tables at the Leadership Week in Hobart
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16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence

November 22, 2022

White background, orange icon of a woman with her arms cross across her chest and a shadow of a person over her body. White text on a purple rectangle reads #nothingwithoutus 16 days of activism agaisnt gender based violence
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Human Rights
Former WWDA President, Karin Swift, left for hours on plane due to inaccessible airport infrastructure

November 22, 2022

Photo of Karin Swift. Karen has an electric wheelchair and has red hair. She also wears glasses, a silver necklace, and a brown cardigan.
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WWDA LEAD Leadership Week kicks off

November 14, 2022

Photo of some of the items on the registration page at the Leadership week. One document is called the Leadership statement and some USB's with the WWDA logo
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The WWDA LEAD Project has been extended

November 14, 2022

Light blue and purple background with the WWDA LEAD logo. Circle with purple text that reads LEAD, lead, engage, activate, drive with illustrations of four people representing disability and diversity.
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Human Rights
The impact of climate change and natural disaster on disabled people in Australia

November 9, 2022

Image of Kelly Cox, Kelly has light brown hair, is wearing glasses, and a colourful scarf. There are plants that are blurry in the background.
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Sexuality and Health
Towards Reproductive Justice for YWGwD

November 8, 2022

An illustration of four people sitting on the flour. The illustrations represent diversity and are coloured in orange, purple and green.
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Employment and Education
Principle 5 – Nothing about us, without us

October 25, 2022

[Image: Light purple background with a dark purple shadow, the photo in the centre is surrounded by a black border, the LEAD logo is in the bottom left corner and text reads ‘LEAD Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)’, the photo is of two women talking to each other, one of the women is behind her laptop and she has dark curly hair and is laughing, the woman to her right has dark brown hair and has her hand up.]
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Human Rights
Violence and Safety
National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032

October 18, 2022

Front page of the National Plan to end violence against women and children 2022-2032
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WWDA LEAD Mentoring

October 17, 2022

light green background with three darker green stripes in the bottom left corner, the LEAD logo sits on top of these stripes and text reads ‘LEAD Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)’, there is black text on the top of the image that reads ‘WWDA LEAD’ and green text below this that reads ‘Mentoring Program’, the graphic is of six women and girls with different disabilities, cultures, sizes, and skin colours.
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Principle 4 – Care for self to care for community

October 3, 2022

Light purple background with a dark purple shadow, the photo has a black border, the LEAD logo is in the bottom left-hand corner and text says ‘LEAD Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)’, the photo is of a poster with text that reads ‘Self-care isn’t selfish
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Carolyn appointed to the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s National OPCAT Advisory Group

September 29, 2022

Photo of WWDA CEO Carolyn Frohmader. Carolyn has blue, short, curly hair and is looking out a window wearing a black top and green necklace in front of a book shelf.
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Join our WWDA LEAD Peer Networking October 19!

September 26, 2022

[Banner image description: Light purple background with an illustration of a woman sitting in a lounge chair talking to people virtually. Text: 'Do you want to connect with other disabled women? Join us for WWDA LEAD Virtual Peer Networking - General, Wednesday 19 October, 5:30-6:30 pm; Register Now!']
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Human Rights
Leadership and Participation
WWDA at the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

September 21, 2022

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Employment and Education
Principle 3 – Challenging and transforming traditional views of leadership

September 19, 2022

[Image: Light purple background with a dark purple shadow, the photo has a black border, the LEAD logo is in the left-hand corner and text says ‘LEAD Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA), the photo is of a young woman with disability, she has long brown hair, wearing a blue and purple shiny top and is smiling.]
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