This bulletin provides an overview of disability trends over two decades, including trends in need for and receipt of assistance with specific basic activities of daily life. It also examines the trends in three major areas of people with a disability: education, employment and community living.

Read the full text at http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10495.

Disability in Australia: trends in prevalence, education, employment and community living is published by the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare.

During 2005 and 2006 a team of researchers from Griffith University were engaged by the Queensland Department of Education and the Arts to examine the transition practices and post-school outcomes for students with disability.  The researchers undertook a literature review and analysis of how Queensland schools deliver educational outcomes for young people with disabilities as they complete school and move onto other activities.

The newly formed Disability Alliance has been established specifically to get people with a disability into pre-election party promises.  The alliance has 6 demands that they believe are critical and must be addressed by political parties.