Asid Research To Practice

In this bonus episode on voting rights, self-advocates talk about barriers to accessing information needed to make decisions about who to vote for - like Susan from Reinforce & Positive Powerful Parents Self-Advocacy Group who said that "Them not speaking in so much jargon, and them doing what they promised" would help. This echoed what came out of a recent research project by the Living with Disability Research Centre. That we talked about in Episode two. Now we hear form Nathan Despott from Inclusion Melbourne about a strategy that is trying to address this barrier: the ICanVote.org.au initiative. You will hear directly from 22 self-advocates from seven groups and organisations including VALID, NSWCID, Reinforce, New Horizons, and New Wave (again, with thanks to SARU for linking us all up). They tell us why politicians should listen and what political issues are important to them! We also hear from five politicians running for re-election in the 2018 November Victorian State Election: Fiona Patten S