Emma Myers.
Emma Myers is a screenwriter, actor, journalist and disability advocate based in Canberra. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and subsequent 1st Class Honours degree on the representation of women, disability and intimacy in contemporary culture. The critically acclaimed 2022 SBS Digital Originals’ series Latecomers, which Emma co created and wrote with Angus Thompson and Nina Oyama, gained a Series Mania nomination and won an SPA Award as well as the Screen Diversity and Inclusion Award in 2023, and was nominated for an AWGIE Award in 2024. The series won an AACTA Award for Best Online Comedy or Drama in 2024. She spoke at the National Young Writers’ Festival and TEDX Sydney in 2023.
She is a representative on Screen Australia’s Gender Matters Taskforce and was recently awarded the Young Alumni Award by the University of Newcastle. Emma was also the recipient of the ABC Regional Storyteller Scholarship in 2020 and has two years’ experience working as a Features Reporter for ABC News. She is Powerd's inaugural Disability Rights and Political Reporter.
Emma is passionate about educating audiences about the intersection of womanhood, sexuality and disability through media.
Latest contributions
Disability groups respond to actions of NDIA CEO
Advocates appalled as NDIA CEO confirms NDIS participants’ removal after criticising the scheme
Emma Myers
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Members of the disability community are demanding a national protocol to ensure equal access to healthcare services for people with disabilities
Woman denied mammogram due to wheelchair later diagnosed with breast cancer
Emma Myers
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Brought to you by the Disability Media Australia, the Powerd Newswrap presents articles from the powerd.media website, along with discussions of the related topics.
Powerd NewsWrap 9th July 2025
Powerd NewsWrap by Emma Myers
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More Australians with disability are being urged to pick up a special key which grants them access to over 1000 safe and secure public toilets across the country.
Disability community urged to obtain key to pee
Emma Myers
News
Australians with disability who require the use of a feeding tube to sustain nourishment are being denied crucial access to both service providers and NDIS funding, according to the industry body that supports them.
NDIS cuts putting the lives of tube feeders at risk
Emma Myers
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Brought to you by the Disability Media Australia, the Powerd Newswrap presents articles from the powerd.media website, along with discussions of the related topics.
Powerd NewsWrap 2nd July 2025
Powerd NewsWrap by Emma Myers
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Disability advocacy organisations are deeply concerned by the Queensland Government’s recent announcement to build six new special schools.
Disability groups condemn Queensland’s decision to elevate segregated schooling
Emma Myers
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Queensland’s government recently announced its intention to build six new special schools in the state budget.
Queensland risks condemning generations of students to segregated schooling
Emma Myers
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With the release of State budgets now concluded, not a single state has mentioned a figure for Foundational Supports
Funding for Foundational Supports missing from State budgets
Emma Myers
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DANA has released its annual Systemic Advocacy Report
Disability advocates demand action after systemic failings revealed
Emma Myers
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