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December 2007

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Vinnie Pederson has two great loves – AFL footie and his brother, actor Aaron Pederson (Wildside, Water Rats, MDA). Aaron became Vinnie’s protector at an early age but caring and a career were impossible he found, without adequate support. An act of great kindness solved his predicament.

Features

Anne McDonald spent 16 years in an institution where she was left on a mattress all day and fed just sufficient to keep her alive. Unable to talk or move, she was said by doctors to have an IQ of 20. Now a university graduate and world traveller, Anne attacks similar assumptions about two young girls whose parents want desexualised.

8 million Australians live with chronic pain but doctors and drug companies do not want to listen to complaints or questions, says Coralie Wales founder of the Chronic Pain Association of Aust.

Islam has the third largest number of adherents in Australia after Christianity and Buddhism. Michael Uniacke investigates how Muslims interpret the Koran’s teachings on disability.

Cushings’s disease. Things get nasty when a tiny gland malfunctions

Work Choices. Some disability services are using the controversial legislation to sack workers unnecessarily. According to IR expert Michael Pegg, they should and can do better.

Only half of us receive the best medical advice says Prof Alex Barratt. Kate Nash reports on the huge gap between traditional practice and evidence-based medicine.

Big changes are planned for SA’s oldest mental health hospital but they don’t include its aged patients. Why not?

Regulars

Christopher Newell on the joys of living an ordinary life. The battle for the rights of pwd must include the right not to be micro-managed by disability services he says.

Robbi Williams – The social costs of fundraising

Politics

Part 2 on Labor’s disability employment policies from Senator Penny Wong

Other Stories

Incontinence and travel

Abuse and neglect – recognising it & what to do

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