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2010
Friday, 10 September - Go WEST Best of the WEST Awards – call for nominations deadline
Hello Go WEST Best of the WEST Awards – call for nominations
On behalf of the Go WEST team it is our pleasure to let you know that nominations are now open for the Go WEST Best of the WEST Awards. These awards recognise and celebrate the achievements of outstanding women and girls who are leading in the fields of engineering, science (including mathematics) and technology and who are located in regional, rural and remote areas of Queensland.A number of awards are available in the following broad categories:
- Primary school student
- Secondary school student
- USQ student
- Professional/business woman Details are available in the attached flyer and at http://www.usq.edu.au/gowest/westawards.
- >Hit the Streets for Abortion Rights!
- Keep abortion legal in Victoria
- Drop the Cairns abortion charges
- ? free, safe, unrestricted abortion on demand for all women, throughout Australia
- ? drop the prosecution against the Cairns couple
- ? stop the removal of Indigenous children into foster care; stop the genocidal detention and deaths in custody of Indigenous people
- stop the forced sterilisation of women with disabilities
- ? access to quality health services for women in remote and regional communities
- ? end employers’ bullying of immigrant women on temporary work visas — no forced abortions
- ? free access to reproductive technology for all women, including lesbians and single women
- ? free, quality 24-hour childcare
- ? jobs with equal pay and parental leave at full wages, paid by employers
- ? access to free, safe contraception for women of all ages
- ? universal, non-moralistic sex education in all schools
- ??guaranteed social services, free education and training <
- The Widening Participation Agenda
- Creating inclusive learning environments in tertiary education
- Curriculum development
- Pedagogy
- Assessment
- Creating space in workplaces and professions
- Reframing the role of the Disabilities Service Practitioner
- printable version
- Submit an event
- Meeting minutes
- CommunityNet Aotearoa/NZ
- Upcoming Conferences and Training - University of Otago, NZ
- International Day of People with Disability Australia
Nominations close on Friday, 10 September 2010.
We encourage you to nominate and let others know of the opportunity by promoting the Awards throughout your networks.
Go WEST Online Community Collaborative Site – invitation to join Consistent with the Go WEST aim to establish a university wide network to build cross-discipline links to foster the success of academics and students in the SET areas, Go WEST has developed an online community collaborative site that anyone can join and contribute to. Instructions on how to join the community are at www.usq.edu.au/gowest/commsite. Please feel free to direct any enquiries to us using the contact details below.
Regards
Shirley Reushle and Fiona Margetts - on behalf of the Go WEST project team
Dr Shirley Reushle
Senior Lecturer & Manager, Technology Enhanced Learning Projects
Australian Digital Futures Institute
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba Queensland Australia
T 61 7 4631 2292
E Shirley.Reushle@usq.edu.au
September 13 to 19, 2010 Celebrate Diversity Week, to be held in Dunedin
21 to 26 September -Arts Access Aotearoa Supports events
20-22 September - Standards Plus 2010 NZ - "No one alone" Conference in Auckland.
1 October Artists application for Darwin Festival deadlines
Artist applications for the 2011 Darwin Festival Now Open | blogsends 1 October
http://www.darwinfestival.org.au/blogs/artist-applications-for-the-2011-darwin-festival-now-open.html
4th of October, 2010 Access Tourism New Zealand Conference
The first New Zealand conference on Access Tourism will be held at Auckland University of Technology city campus on the 4th of October, 2010.Access Tourism is tourism, travel, and hospitality for people with disabilities, seniors, and Baby Boomers who will experience increased disability as they age.
Information about the conference, the venue, and the registration procedure is now available at http://nztri.aut.ac.nz/accesstourismconference/index.html
Topics to be covered include the rationale for developing Access Tourism, developments in Auckland, world Access Tourism, accessible websites and information, access and transport, the Access Tourist, and the NZ legal arena.
There will also be time for workshops to discuss strategies for advancing the development of Access Tourism and developing collaboration as a tool to advance that development.
October 9 - National Day of Action for abortion rights and full reproductive justice for all women including Women With Disabilities
Radical Women, with grassroots abortion rights groups in other states, has issued a callout for a National Day of Action for abortion rights on October 9. RW is a socialist feminist organisation based in Melbourne, which is active in the struggle of all women for full equality. Rallies across Australia will demand that charges against a Queensland couple be dropped, and Melbourne’s action will also defend Victoria’s legalisation of abortion in 2008 against a rightwing, anti-choice backlash. Melbourne’s rally calls for women’s full reproductive freedom, including the right to have and keep children, free from State interference. Demands include ending the forced sterilisation of women with disabilities and guaranteeing all women the social supports and services needed to raise children — from quality healthcare to secure and comfortable housing. Radical Women hopes to hear from members of the Australian Network of Students for Disabilities who want to help make the Melbourne solidarity action huge, diverse and powerful. RW can be contacted on 03-9388-0062 or radicalwomen@optusenet.com.au.Be part of this National Day of Action
Saturday, 9 October, 12.00 noon Parliament House, Melbourne
On October 9 this year, the Right to Life will mark two years since the legalisation of abortion in Victoria by holding a “March for the Babies” as part of a campaign to re-criminalise abortion.A war on abortion rights is raging across the world, as a global ultra-reactionary movement demands that governments dictate what women can and can’t do with their bodies. But it doesn’t stop there. The far right is also out to repress immigrants, Indigenous peoples, sexual minorities and workers as well as women. Above all, they want to control women’s reproductive capacity in order to make it as difficult as possible for them to act as leaders in the struggle for a safe, just and equal world.
In Australia, they are targeting Victoria and Queensland. The Catholic Church has launched a legal challenge in Victoria, claiming an entitlement of conscientious objection for anti-abortion health professionals who are now legally required to refer a woman seeking an abortion to a provider and, in the case of an emergency, to assist in a termination.
It’s no coincidence that six months after Victoria’s legalisation of abortion, the Queensland Police charged a 19-year-old woman and her partner for procuring an abortion under the state’s 19th century criminal code. She is the first woman in the country to be prosecuted under anti-abortion statutes. If convicted, the pair faces years in jail, and the case could set a very dangerous precedent. This is because the police are arguing that intent to procure a miscarriage is all that is needed for a conviction, regardless of an actual pregnancy or an actual miscarriage.
The trial is set for October 12 in Cairns, and pro-choice rallies across the country on October 9 will demand that the charges be dropped. In Victoria, the demand to keep abortion legal will be added to this.
Ninety percent of the Australian population believes that women should have the right to choose abortion. But we also need to link abortion rights to all other factors that make choice for women truly attainable: childcare, health services, housing, education and training, jobs, equal pay, unrestricted access to contraception and an end to all forms of discrimination.
Starting on October 9, we can stop these women-haters by fighting back and demanding:
How to get more involved
This is a callout to all who want to be involved in organising Melbourne’s solidarity action and make it huge, diverse and powerful! Meetings will be on alternate Thursdays, 6.30 pm, starting August 5 at Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick Victoria. (Take Tram #19 to Blyth or Stewart Street stops or the Upfield train to Anstey station; plenty of parking off Staley Street)For more information, contact Radical Women
03-9388-0062 or radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au
You can also support this action by donating toward the organising costs. Please send cheques to:
Radical Women, PO Box 308, Brunswick Vic 3056.
October- Grant Meredith's Art Show - Ballarat
I am planning to curate an art show in Ballarat to coincide with International Stuttering Awareness Week in October. I am looking for volunteers to portray on a supplied canvas what stuttering means to them. You can portray this message in any way that you feel comfortable with. You may choose to paint, sketch, write or even punch holes in the canvas. You do not need to be a technically great artist to participate and all you need is the passion to communicate. This is a way to get your message out about stuttering in a new, creative way and to help educate the public through a truly eye-opening means. Your participation may be anonymous if you wish. I am in the middle of organising the show at the moment but if you are interested then please email me at g.meredith@ballarat.edu.au .
This art show has the support of Speak Easy Australia and without your participation the event cannot be a success. Any proceeds raised from the event will go directly to Speak Easy. "
It should be an exciting event and I already have some promises of work. I will be advertising in the Speak Easy newsletter coming out shortly. I am researching myself the university experiences of students who stutter for my PhD. I also stutter myself and I am very versed at it . . I am in the early stages of data analysis but you may find it interesting that I am finding a large disconnection between students who stutter and the term "disability". The majority of them do not class it as such at all and are very vocal about this.
Regards
Grant Meredith
Lecturer
Room T158
Graduate School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences
University of Ballarat (CRICOS Provider Number 00103D)
PO Box 663
Ballarat, Victoria Australia 3353
PH: +61 3 5327 9808
Fax: +61 3 5327 9289
October 20-24, 2010 Awakening Festival, Victoria
21st - 22nd October 2010 Working in the West Conference 2010
ASCOT RACECOURSE, 70 GRANDSTAND RD ASCOTWorking in the West Conference 2010 aims to provide all delegates a strategies and practical support toolbox full of ideas to take away and use in our ever changing environment. The Conference will motivate, inspire and will offer delegates a wide range of training and information on marketing and selling , VET, mental heath and other specific disabilities along with other agencies offering information about their services and how they can to assist you and lots more!
The DES and ADE awards will be presented at the Sundowner. Nominations for DES and ADE Employee of the Year awards will open soon.
Regional Travel & Accommodation subsidies will again be available upon application.
Watch this Space!
http://www.acewa.org.au/
16 – 19 November 2010 The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing
Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne, Victoria
1 - 3 DecemberPathways 10, 2010 Conference - Creating space for people with disabilities in tertiary education - Brisbane
Pathways 10, 2010 Conference - Creating space for people with disabilities in tertiary education Brisbane from Wednesday, 1 December 2010 to Friday, 3 December 2010.
The Australian Tertiary Education Network on Disability (ATEND) and the members of the Pathways 10 Conference Organising Committee extend a warm invitation to everyone who shares the vision for more inclusive tertiary education experiences and outcomes for people with disabilities. Pathways 10, 2010 will be held at the vibrant Southbank precinct in the heart of Brisbane at various venues including Southbank Institute of Technology and Griffith University. Join us for three days of thought-provoking discussion, information-sharing, strategising and problem solving as well as networking opportunities and some great social events. Topics to be explored at the conference include:
We are looking forward to creating a stimulating conference program as well as an engaging space in which you can network, reconnect with friends and meet new people. Watch this space for regular updates. – www.pathways10.org
Contact Judy Hartley, Pathways 10 Organising Committee Chair
07 3735 7280
j.hartley@griffith.edu.au
Monday, 6 December 2010 -National Disability Conference
The Health and Disability Commissioner is hosting a National Disability Conference.Monday, 6 December 2010
Waipuna Conference Centre, Auckland
For people with disabilities and general public
For more information
http://www.hdc.org.nz/about-us/disability/events
2011
March 2011, Auckland and Hamilton, Deep Quality
March 14 to 17, Pacific Regional Conference on Disability 2011
FIRST NOTICE1. Dates – Monday, 14th March - Thursday, 17th March 2011.
2. Host Country – Auckland, New Zealand. Venue to be confirmed in September 2010.3. Theme – “Promoting actions on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in the Pacific Region.”
4. Programme Outline:
• Pacific Regional Forum on Women with Disabilities –14th March 2011.• Pacific Disability Conference – 15th -16th March 2011. A series of sessions and workshops on relevant thematic areas to build the capacity of national DPOs and their representatives, as well as seizing the opportunity of being together in one place to share information, exchange ideas, build alliances, networking and strengthen solidarity.
• PDF General and Council Meeting – 17th March 2011. Business meeting for member organisations of PDF.
? General Meeting – 9:00am-1:00pm – Attended by PDF Full and Associate Members.
? Council Meeting – 2:00pm-5:00pm – Attended by PDF Full Members Only.
5. Registration Fees
Registration fees are:Government/Institutions /Companies NZ$150 per person/ day
Disability NGOs NZ$100 per person/ day
PDF Associate members, People with disabilities and students NZ$85 per person/ day
* Registration fees above apply for the Regional WWD Forum (14th March 2011) and the Pacific Disability Conference (15th – 16th March 2011) only
6. Inclusions
Registration fees include morning and afternoon teas, lunch, and conference materials.7. Conference Dinner
NZ$75 per person (optional)8. Accommodation Special accommodation rates are currently being negotiated. There are excellent hotels with fully disability-accessible rooms.
9. Collaboration
The conference is organized by the PDF in close collaboration with Vision Pacific Charitable Trust, and other PDF member Organisations in New Zealand. The Financial Assistance of NZAid and AusAID towards this Regional event is duly acknowledged.10. Expression of Interest Please email your interest in attending and any special needs you may have to the undersign. We will notify you as soon as registration is available.
"A Partnership of Pacific Organisations of and for Persons With Disabilities"
Mr. Soloveni Vitoso
Information Officer
Pacific Disability Forum
24 Desvouex Road, Suva
Fiji Islands.
Phone: (679) 331 2008
Mobile: (679) 708 2939
Fax: (679) 331 0469
Email: infor@pacificdisability.org
Website: http://www.pacificdisability.org
21-22 March 2011 Disability Support: Options for Reform ,Melbourne
Further informationVern Hughes
03 9824 4713
0425 722 890 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0425 722 890
vern@partnerships.org.au
