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Our National Day of Action on April 28th is a time when everyone – whether you’re an individual or an organisation – is welcome to host your own events and activities (or join in on someone else’s) all across the country. Because together we are powerful!
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Day of Action - local events in this region
Our National Day of Action on Thursday, April 28 is a time when everyone – whether you’re an individual or an organisation – is welcome to host your own events and activities (or join in on someone else’s) all across the country. Because together we are powerful!
Young, Powerful & Engaged: CYDA’s Federal Election forum
Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) is hosting a free, online forum for young people and our wider community to hear from Australia’s major parties what they are promising children and young people with disability in the Federal Election.
There will be a Q&A for young people to directly ask political leaders about the election issues that are important to them.
Panelists:
– Senator Hollie Hughes
– Hon Bill Shorten MP
– Senator Jordan Steele-John
Date: 18 May | Time: 7-8pm AEST
Location:
Organisation/host: Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA)
Email for more info or to register
Melbourne march + rally against NDIS cuts & appeals
The NDIS exists to help people with disability and families to get the essential supports needed to live a decent life.
But over the last couple of years, people with disability, families and advocates are being increasingly forced to go to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) to get back the supports that have been cut from their NDIS plans without explanation.
We will hear from NDIS participants, families, advocates about their experiences and why this is so important.
And we’ll take the 10 minute journey from the NDIA to the AAT – a journey that far too often takes more than 10 MONTHS.
We will have Auslan interpreters there, and we will livestream the event (with captions) on our Facebook page and YouTube channel for people who can’t be there with us in person.
Date: May 19 | Time: 11am - 12pm AEST (Melbourne time)
Location: 367 Collins Street Melbourne (NDIA Melbourne CBD head office) - then March to the AAT at 15 William Street Melbourne., Melbourne, Vic 3000, AU
Organisation/host: Every Australian Counts
Email for more info or to register
Reasonable and Necessary Election Special Series Watch Party
This is an Every Australian Counts partnership event with Dr George Taleporos’ special election series of Reasonable and Necessary.
You’ll hear what Australia’s NDIS politicians have planned for our NDIS. And what a lineup! Linda Reynolds, Bill Shorten and Jordan Steele-John.
And in our final episode we will bring together Australia’s leading disability advocates to analyse everything that’s been said.
The questions that I’m asking have come from you, sourced from advocacy organisations also including People with Disability Australia (PWDA), Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA), Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO), and National Disability Services – who have partnered with me to bring you this very important series.
Date: 4 episodes being released on May 9, 11, 13 and 16. | Time: 6PM AEST
Location: https://www.facebook.com/everyaustraliancounts/
Organisation/host: Every Australian Counts in partnership with the Reasonable and Necessary podcast
Email for more info or to register
Defend Our NDIS Big Night In
Catch up with people from all over the country online, to hear about what everyone got up to after our efforts on the National Day of Action. And help us all keep up the energy and come up with ideas to keep the pressure on our pollies this election.
Date: 28 April | Time: 7 pm - 9 pm (AEST)
Location: Online
Organisation/host: Every Australian Counts, Teamwork Works
Email for more info or to register
A Democracy Sausage to Defend our NDIS
In partnership with the Every Australian Counts campaign, Lifeful is proud to be hosting 2 events for the National Day Of Action at our Frankston and Melton locations.
Please come along and join us, share your stories and sign the petition. We can assist you to join the campaign by signing up, and registering your stories of funding cuts, so that come election day, we will be heard!
We know if we all work together we can make a difference.
Date: Thursday the 28th April | Time: 12-2pm, AEST
Location: Hannah Watt’s Park 183-225 High St,, Melton, Vic AU
Organisation/host: Lifeful
Email for more info or to register
A Democracy Sausage to Defend our NDIS
In partnership with the Every Australian Counts campaign, Lifeful is proud to be hosting 2 events for the National Day Of Action at our Frankston and Melton locations.
Please come along and join us, share your stories and sign the petition. We can assist you to join the campaign by signing up, and registering your stories of funding cuts, so that come election day, we will be heard!
We know if we all work together we can make a difference.
Date: Thursday the 28th April | Time: 12-2pm, AEST
Location: Trim’s Café 40 Playne Street, Frankston, Vic AU
Organisation/host: Deb
Email for more info or to register
Defend Early Childhood Intervention Through NDIS
Online meeting with the Team to reflect on the importance of NDIS for young children and families.
Date: 28th April | Time: 2.00
Location:
Organisation/host: EarlyEd
Email for more info or to register
Family Advocacy’s Social Media Blitz
Can you help us make some noise this Thursday, 28 April?
As part of the Defend Our NDIS National Day of Action, Family Advocacy are having a social media blitz. Share our posts, retweet our tweets, tag NDIS Minister Reynolds and call your local Federal member.
Our NDIS is at a crossroads. It’s not the NDIS we fought so hard for, or the NDIS Australians deserve. A federal election is just around the corner. Let’s show our political leaders just how important it is that we Defend Our NDIS.
Follow us on Facebook at familyadvocacynsw or Twitter @FamAdvocacyNSW
Date: 28 April | Time: All day
Location:
Organisation/host: Family Advocacy
Email for more info or to register
Geelong In Action: Defend Our NDIS!
Join us for the #DefendOurNDIS rally at Cunningham Pier in Geelong. No registration needed, all are welcome.
Date: 28 April | Time: 11:30 am (AEST)
Location: Cunningham Pier, 10 Western Foreshore Rd, Geelong, VIC 3200
Organisation/host: WDV Barwon Region
Email for more info or to register
Sunbury: Defend Our NDIS – Sausage Sizzle
Join us from 12pm-1pm for a sausage sizzle! Wear red to show your support of the NDIS.
$2.50 for a sausage in bread
$2 for a can of drink
Proceeds will be donated to Every Australian Counts
Date: April 28th | Time: 12pm-1pm; AEDT
Location: Distinctive Options - Sunbury 24 Macedon Street, Sunbury, Victoria 3429, AU
Organisation/host: Distinctive Options- Sunbury
Email for more info or to register
Defend the NDIS: A Sort Your Support online forum
Sort Your Support is hosting a forum with people with disability and their supporters to discuss how the NDIS can be fixed. The NDIS should be something to be proud of, a rights based funding system to enable people with disability to live an ordinary life. The NDIS in its current form is not what was promised. Funding has been cut from plans, wait times are getting longer, and people are needing to fight NDIS lawyers to get the support they need. Something has to change.
Date: April 28 | Time: 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM AEST
Location: Online (Zoom)
Organisation/host: Sort Your Support
Email for more info or to register
Adelaide (Online): SACID Crew Defend Our NDIS
Join us for an Hour of Power!
We’re ready to #DefendOurNDIS and would love you to be part of it.
There’ll be fun and easy ways to take part, have your say and who knows maybe even some dancing and music!
By the end of the hour of power, we’ll put together a mighty big message that we’ll share with politicians and candidates about why the NDIS matters in this election (and the future!)
It’ll be on Zoom, so you can take part from wherever you are across South Australia (and be safe).
Date: 28 April | Time: 2pm - 3pm ACST
Location: Zoom (online)
Organisation/host: South Australian Council on Intellectual Disability (SACID)
Email for more info or to register
Melbourne: Self-advocates rally
Self-advocates will meet in the Ross House foyer at 12:30pm to get ready.
After that we will head outside and share our messages with people passing by. We will have Defend our NDIS signs, Every Australian Counts t-shirts, and excellent chants to share with the public.
Please note: this event is only for self-advocacy groups based in Ross House to help us stay COVID safe.
Date: 28 April | Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
Organisation/host: Reinforce and Positive Powerful Parents
Email for more info or to register
Reinforce 9650 7855 or Positive Powerful Parents - 9639 9106Frankston: Standing up for the NDIS
Lifeful will be holding a lunch for our NDIS participants, their parents and carers & NDIS providers to support the National Day of Action. The event will include a light lunch #DefendOur NDIS. Register at the link below to attend.
Date: 28th April 2022 | Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (AEST)
Location: Trims Cafe 40 Playne Street, Frankston, Vic, 3199, AU
Organisation/host: Lifeful
Email for more info or to register
Heidelberg: Mind Australia Morning Tea – Keep the NDIS strong
This event is not open to the public.
Mind is one of the largest providers of NDIS-funded supported independent living services in Australia for people with psychosocial disability, and we provide a plethora of NDIS-funded services through mobile outreach, centre-based and online methods. Let’s show our support for this crucial funding and defend the NDIS.
Date: 28 April | Time: 10:30 am (AEST)
Location: Heidelberg, VIC, 3084
Organisation/host: Mind Australia
Email for more info or to register
Werribee: Mambourin National Day of Action Morning Tea
This event is not open to the public.
Mambourin will be holding a morning tea for our community members, and their parents and carers, to support the National Day of Action. The event will include performances by our Hip Hop crew and choir.
Date: 28 April | Time: 10:30 am (AEST)
Location: Werribee, VIC 3030
Organisation/host: Mambourin
Email for more info or to register
0411040176Morning Tea to Defend Our NDIS
At our supported Independent Living Service we will have a morning tea and pet therapy to discuss the role and importance of the NDIS
Date: April 28 | Time: 11am (Melbourne)
Location: Brunswick West AU
Organisation/host: Mind Australia
Email for more info or to register
Melbourne (Online): Defend Our NDIS Morning Tea
Join Melba Support Services CEO Hayley Dean at our online rally and be a part of the National Day of Action to stop the cuts! Learn how you can help make this campaign visible in communities and how to influence candidates ahead of the election. Set aside 20 minutes in your calendar – all are welcome. Bring friends and family along to show how much we care about a strong NDIS.
At 10am on Thursday 28 April, grab a coffee or tea and enter the zoom room here: https://zoom.us/j/99296897519
Date: 28 April | Time: 10:00 am (AEST)
Location: Online (Zoom)
Organisation/host: Melba Support Services
Email for more info or to register
Online: Defend Our NDIS SWAN Australia Event
Syndromes Without a Name (SWAN) Australia is hosting a virtual Defend Our NDIS event for the National Day of Action. If you cannot attend, we invite you to submit a video about your recent experience with the NDIS. You can also use our template letter to email your candidates with SWAN asks this election. Contact SWAN Australia CEO Heather Renton for more info or guidance.
Date: 28 April | Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Online
Organisation/host: Syndromes Without A Name (SWAN) Australia
Email for more info or to register
You Need Us
I’ve written a new poem and I am going to explain what is happening to me re-NDIS on a zoom event at 12pm on that day 28th and put out the video of it on YouTube and my Website.
Date: April 28 2022 | Time: 12pm AEST
Location: Online
Organisation/host: Sam Petersen
Email for more info or to register
An Online Chat About Why ‘Defending Our “NDIS” is Important to Us on a Personal Level
This is an online event via ‘Messenger Rooms”, which can be accessed via “Facebook”, or via ‘Messenger App”.
Date: Saturday 7th May, 2022 | Time: 5.00pm (AEST)
Location:
Organisation/host: Tiffany Trudgeon
Email for more info or to register
#DefendOurNDIS Twitter Storm
In a galaxy not so far away, on the eve of Every Australian Counts #DefendOurNDIS National Day of Action there’s going to be a Twitter Storm … get your fingers or voice to text options warmed up..
Join for a fast-paced hour of all things #NDIS
– why it matters
– the difference it has made
– the missing tier
– research it has ignored
– the future & more
Let’s get it out there just what the pollies & everyone needs to know as we head to #Election2022 #AusVotes
Date: 27 April | Time: 8-9PM (AEST)
Location: Twitter
Organisation/host: Aine Hillbilly
Email for more info or to register
Mornington Peninsula: Defend Our NDIS Morning Tea
Join us on the Mornington Peninsula for a morning tea with disability service agencies, local disability social networks, schools, parents and others who want to #DefendOurNDIS. Email with questions.
Date: 28 April | Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm (AEST)
Location: Sages Cottage Farm 85 Sages Rd, Baxter, VIC 3911, AU
Organisation/host: Wallara Australia
Email for more info or to register
