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The Devine Miss B. Theresa Byrnes' exhilaration for life, adventure and transformation make for intoxicating art.

Features

Study: People with disabilities live in the poorest suburbs in Australia

Fiona Place: relating to the child, not the disability

Keeping reality at arm’s length. Academics in ivory towers

Nick Rushworth tells how he escaped permanent brain injury

Roger Rees: the tragedy of alert minds in paralysed bodies

Making public buildings accessible & easy to negotiate

The pitiless plight of Africa’s mentally ill

Criminalising mental illness

Bruce Bonyhady: time for a national disability insurance scheme

Post-natal depression. Jane Gardner reports on symptoms and treatments

One man’s persistence after five strokes

Revolutionary new communication for deaf people

Some doctors just don’t get disability says Andrew Gunn

Unethical tactics of pharma giant Merck

Spiderman is ok but not a TV presenter with one arm!

Regulars

Who Cares? Ken Baker examines the recent report on carers

Robbi Williams reveals how he came to work in the disability sector

Book Excerpt

The Divine Mistake. Theresa Brynes’ racy, thought-provoking autobiography

Humour

Peter Coulter discovers another alternative practitioner – the “Intuitive”!

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