Margaret Paul reported this story on Friday, February 6, 2015 12:35:00

Friday 6 February 2015 8:34AM

Lawyers acting on behalf of a class action of more than ten thousand workers with a disability are calling on the Government to support the case.

According to the federal and high courts, these employees have been illegally underpaid in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act for more than a decade.

Friday, Feb 6th, 2015

Australian Greens spokesperson on Disability Senator Rachel Siewert has labelled a decline in work force participation for people with disability over 20 years as ‘a sign that our government is not doing nearly enough to create equity in the workplace for people with disability’.

Margaret Paul reported this story on Thursday, February 12, 2015 18:55:00

PETER LLOYD: The ABC has obtained a draft copy of the National Disability Insurance Agency's proposed safeguards to prevent abuse and reduce the use of medication to restrain people who are violent. 

Disability advocates say it's a good start, but unions are warning safeguards will be useless unless the scheme has more money. 

Margaret Paul reports.

Woman with knife shot dead by police

• ‘She was like a zombie, as if possessed’: Witness
• Devastated mother collapsed when told daughter was dead
• Police led toddler away from horror scene

THE 22-year-old knife wielding woman shot dead by police yesterday had Aspergers.

People with Autism Spectrum Disorder are more likely to be targeted by the authorities because their behaviour can be wrongly interpreted as being aggressive, says a disability advocate and consultant.

A young woman fatally shot by police in Sydney after she was seen waving a kitchen knife on Tuesday morning had Asperger's Syndrome.

But the former head of Autism Victoria, Murray Dawson-Smith, said the 22-year-old may not have been intending to threaten violence.

It seems there's been a shake-up over editorial practice at one of the more expensive research journals around autism and developmental disability.

Editotial standards and practices for research published in Research in Developmental Disabilities (RIDD) and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders (RASD) is questionable.

More information is available here: http://deevybee.blogspot.ca/2015/02/jou…

By Emily Bryan

Tue 27 Jan 2015

PHOTO: The early learning centre in Burnie supports 46 pre-school children. (ABC News: Emily Bryan)

The Autism Early Learning Centre in Burnie, which supports 46 pre-school children, will only be funded until June.An autism centre in Tasmania's north-west is facing an unknown future after being given no funding guarantees by the Federal Government.

Beyond that, ongoing funding will be assessed in the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), the rollout of which begins mid-2016.

The Federal Social Services Department said decisions on the centre's future will be based on a range of evidence.

But the fact that the NDIS required services to compete in a demand-driven market has the centre's supporters worried.

Kathryn Fordyce, who manages the centre, said she did not how it would adapt to NDIS requirements or whether it could survive without funding until the rollout starts.

"I'm hopeful, and certainly our families really the support," she said.