September 2012

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Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone: 03 9662 3324
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Email: office@afdo.org.au
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Table of Contents

AFDO HOSTS OUR FRIENDS FROM KIRIBATI 3
EDUCATION 4
PUBLIC TRANSPORT 6
NDIS ENGAGEMENT 9
SHADOW REPORT ON THE CRPD 10
CENTRELINK 11

Established in 2004, AFDO is a cross disability human rights organisation. Its membership consists of a number of national and state Disabled People’s Organisations including Blind Citizens Australia, Brain Injury Australia, Deaf Australia, Deafness Forum, National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids, National Council on Intellectual Disability, National Ethnic Disability Alliance, Short Statured Persons of Australia, Disability Resources Centre, Disability Justice Advocacy, People with Disabilities Western Australia and Australia for All. As well as these full members AFDO has a number of associate members. AFDO is in the unique position of bringing the concerns of people with a disability from a range of individual disability diagnoses and demographic factors as well as cross disability organisations together to form a combined and strong voice for people with a disability.

Welcome to the AFDO Newsletter for November 2010. In this issue, you'll find lots of information about what AFDO has been doing, including:

- Attending the Australian Disability and Development Consortium conference in Darwin, along with some self advocates

The first edition of the AFDO Newsletter for 2010 contains a range of articles about our work and work happening in the sector, including:

An update on the AFDO Human Rights Monitoring Project, which is examining how AFDO might monitor the human rights of people with disability now and into the future;