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Deaf Australia's December 2011 Outlook Edition now available
What’s new | Mobile emergency service trial approved! | Minister for disability reform announced | Staying safe these holidays | Organisations leading the way with Auslan videos | Profile - new Life Member Janelle Ravlich | Happy Reading!
Latest Strategy Plan 2011 - 2014 from Deaf Australia in Auslan!
At the 25th AGM in Adelaide, Deaf Australia released its Strategic Plan for 2011-2014, and now can be viewed in the first video clip below.
The Key Priorities in our Strategic Plan are explained further in the second video clip below.
Deaf Australia's November 2011 Outlook Edition now available
What’s new | National Curriculum to include Auslan | An old home for unique Australian-designed hearing aid technology | Cinema captioning – untangling the confusion | 25th Deaf Australia AGM | Deaf Australia Awards | National Award for young Deaf Aussie | Historic Meeting of deafness sector peaks | Happy Reading!
Media Release: National Award for Young Deaf Aussie
Young deaf advocate Katrina Lancaster won the Young Disability Challenge Award at the 2011 National Disability Awards held at the Great Hall, Parliament House on 22 November 2011.
Media Release: National Curriculum to include Auslan: a win for deaf advocates
Deaf Australia yesterday applauded Minister Peter Garrett’s announcement that Auslan (Australian Sign Language) will be included in the National Curriculum.
WFD President Message for Deaf Australia's 25th AGM
Posted on 22nd November 2011
Deaf Australia's new content partner
Deaf Australia has become a 'content partner' on a new ‘hearing loss and deafness community’ on the Healthshare website. This Healthshare website is an Australia's social health network. Click on the link and see what this new website has to offer!
Deaf Australia's Oct 2011 Outlook Edition now available
The Deaf community does it again - An update on the recent controversy over comments made by the Telstra Business Woman of the Year | NDIS update | Young Deaf Australians Drisana Levitzke-Gray and Rachael Ellis represented Australia at the World Federation of the Deaf Youth Camp in South Africa this year. | More and more Auslan videos are appearing on the internet. But are they all a reliable resource for people learning Auslan? | Update to some Telstra phones required | The Australian Government is proposing to merge all of the current Commonwealth anti-discrimination laws into one law. | Happy Reading!
News Update: Deaf people demand apology from Telstra Businesswoman of the Year
Deaf Australia and the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) have called for a public apology today
from Telstra Queensland Businesswoman of the Year, Ms Dimity Dornan, for her comments about
deafness in her award acceptance speech on Tuesday as published in the Sydney Morning Herald.
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS): Big changes coming for Deaf people and services.
Posted on 11th October 2011
Deaf Australia's Aug-Sept 2011 Outlook Edition now available
NDIS... Big changes coming for Deaf people and services | Pensioners feeling the pinch set to get a boost | National carer strategy launched | Australian Business Award for NABS | Happy Reading!
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is having a Census of Population and Housing and aiming to accurately count the number of people in Australia, their key characteristics, and the dwellings in which they live.
Deaf Australia's July 2011 Outlook Edition now available
The Census Is Coming To Town! | Are You Ready? | The Auslan Shop Is Moving! | Comminque From The Accessible Cinema Advisory Group (Acag) | Cap That! Helps Australian Teachers Boost Literacy And Inclusion With Captions | Colin Allen New President Of Wfd | Message From The Minister, Andrew Constance, Nsw Minister For Disability Service Tackling Disadvantage | In The Midst Of The Boom | Review Of Access To Telecommunication Services By People With Disability, Older Australians And People Experiencing Illness (Nrs Review) | Donate to Deaf Australia... | Happy Reading!
Deaf Sydneysider Colin Allen made history yesterday as the first Australian to be elected as
President of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). The election was held at the WFD General
Assembly in Durban, South Africa, on Sunday 17 July 2011.
Auslan translation of the "Auslan on TV" campaign article from the Deaf Australia's Outlook May 2011 edition.
Posted on 19 July 2011
Deaf Australia's June 2011 Outlook Edition now available
Topics - Support the every Australian Counts Campaign, Census night 9 August 2011, Victorian Deaf Education Institute (VDEI), Help Deaf Australia improve the lives of Deaf people, TIO fact sheet, Have your say about Deaf Children Australia's strategic plan, and Deaf Australia's fabulous conference photos!
Deaf Australia's May 2011 Outlook Edition now available
Topics - Auslan on TV campaign, Deaf Australia's 2nd Conference, TIO Fact Sheet, Funding for school students with disabilities, Budget 2011, Sign Language Interpreters on Fiji TV News, Smart Auslan at National Sports Museum, Nominations for 2011 National Disability Awards, Donate to Deaf Australia...
The 1 in 4 Poll is a regular national survey designed to enable people with disability to express their views on a range of social issues. The first Poll focuses on Social Inclusion. The responses of people who complete the Poll will be used to influence government policy and inform future practice and research.
ACCAN and Deaf Australia want Deaf and Hearing to have equal access to telecommunications (phone, mobile, internet)
You can help by going to the ACCAN stall at the Deaf Australia Conference in Hobart 13-15 May. Please tell us your telecommunications problems and we will video you. We will use the videos to lobby the government to improve phone services for Deaf people.
If you are not coming to Hobart, you can send an email or video to Deaf Australia: david.parker@deafau.org.au. Please send the videos/emails by 31 May.
Deaf Australia's April 2011 Outlook Edition now available
Topics - The exciting Deaf Australia Conference, Digital TV in Regional Victoria, Human Rights 2011, Accessible Arts, NDIS Campaign, Premises Standards, FactSheets, Mortgage Relief for Queenslanders, Donations Needed...
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our members a very happy and peaceful Easter.
Posted on 21th April 2011
Deaf Australia's Conference
Are you planning to come to our conference in Hobart, 13 – 15 May 2011, but you have not yet registered? Hurry!
We have only 25 tickets left for the boat cruise. Registrations close on Friday 6th May 2011.
Remember: If you are a deaf person and you are:
1. a pensioner; or
2. a full time student; or
3. a member of Deaf Australia and you do not work for an organisation that can pay your registration
then you are entitled to special discount registration – use the registration form for deaf people. See you at the conference, registrations are filling up, the boat is almost full, it’s going to be fabulous!
Deaf Australia's March 2011 Outlook Edition now available
Topics - The exciting Deaf Australia Conference, National Disability Strategy launch, Media Access Australia, Internet Scam, Auslan on the News, Queenslanders...
Roles and Responsibilities of Disabled People's Organisations DPO survey
Deaf Australia' latest survey on the roles and responsibilities of deaf representative organisations and specialist deaf service providers, under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is available.
Dear members, supporters and friends, thank you to everyone who has signed our petition about the need for emergency and risk management plans to ensure the National Relay Service remains operating during natural disasters and other threats to service.
If you have not yet signed our petition, we encourage you to do so. The NRS is being reviewed soon and it is important that this issue is included in the review. The more names we have supporting this petition, the better.
Auslan IS the language used by the Deaf community of Australia.
Auslan is abbreviated as Australian Sign Language. It is the uniquely visual language widely used in the Australian Deaf community.
Auslan conveys meaning through the use of handshapes, movement and location in space in conjunction with facial expressions and the use of fingerspelling.
Many materials are being published that claim to use and/or teach Auslan, many by people who are not native users of the language, and some of these materials use Auslan incorrectly.
This is cause for concern to Deaf Australia. Deaf Australia has now developed the » Auslan Endorsement System, which tests materials and if they meet the criteria, they will be endorsed by Deaf Australia.
The Auslan Shop sells materials in Auslan and about Auslan, Deaf culture, Deaf history, interpreting, education, etc.
All Auslan materials for sale are approved first by Deaf Australia's Auslan Endorsement System. If you buy it in Auslan from The Auslan Shop you can be sure it is Auslan!
World Federation of the Deaf
WFD was established in 1951 in Rome, Italy.
» WFD is an international, non-governmental central organisation of national associations of Deaf people, with a current membership of associations in 127 countries worldwide.
Associate members, international members and individual members also make up WFD’s membership base.
Deaf Australia is the Australian member of the WFD.
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