News
Welcome to Powerd's weekly news wrap. In case you missed it, here are the top news items for the week ending Friday 19th September 2025:
- New childcare respite program for children with severe disability
- Children and Young People with Disability Australia voices community concerns revealed in Thriving Kids survey
- Transport Minister provides update on Aviation sector for travellers with disability
- It’s not revolutionary, but Primark’s wheelchair-using mannequin is a potent symbol
- Students in Year 10 are set to choose senior subjects. Those with disability miss out. Why?
- From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common
- 'Can't operate without Funding'
- ‘My greatest handicap was the attitude of normal people.’ Alan Marshall’s artful polio memoir, I Can Jump Puddles, turns 70
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