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A regional information team also provides individual support and advice for people with spinal cord injury in coastal and inland NSW. SCIA advocates for independent living services that would support people with high level care needs in their own homes, such as public housing, personal care, housekeeping, equipment supply and income support ...
Wheelchair Sports NSW is the peak New South Wales sports organisation that assists people with disabilities ranging from spinal cord injury, spina bifida, amputation, paraplegia, quadriplegia to other similar disabling conditions. The organisation was established as the Paraplegic Sports Club, a section of the Paraplegic Association of NSW ...
Established in 1989 by cricketer Dennis Lillee, it is the fundraising arm of the West Australian Disabled Sports Association and provides support and coaching and training facilities to West Australian athletes with disabilities. Ricky Stuart Foundation [11] Established by rugby league player and coach Ricky Stuart in 2011. Its aim is raise ...
Dinesh Palipana (born 1984) – Australian doctor, the first quadriplegic intern in Queensland, the second quadriplegic medical graduate in Australia. A spinal cord injury was caused as a result of a car accident. [28] Teddy Pendergrass (1950–2010) – soul singer, paralyzed in an auto accident in 1982. [29]
Following a spinal cord injury, Palipana found adapted ways to be trained as a quadriplegic doctor in partnership with Griffith University and the Gold Coast University Hospital. [16] This was a previously unaccomplished feat in Queensland. He has consequently openly advocated for training medical students with disabilities in Australia. [17]
SYDNEY – Michelle Li and Mikayla Hogg have been named the winners of the Australian Fashion Foundation’s annual scholarship awards for 2022. In partnership with the American Australian ...
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John MacDonald Falconar Grant, AO, OBE (14 August 1922 – 10 November 2013) [1] was an Australian neurosurgeon and disability sport administrator. He was president of the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games Organising Committee. He played a leading role in the development of disability sport in Australia.