Andrew Fairbairn, president of Physical Disability Australia, an organisation formed to promote the rights of community members with disabilities. The Board are all made up of those with physical disabilities.

The organisation formed to fill the gap in representation of people with disabilities by people with disabilities.

Original broadcast date 21.08.2022

Catharine Pruscino, project manager of Respect.Now.Always at UTS, a program to prevent sexual harassment and assault on university campuses.

Original broadcast date 24.07.2022

Interview with Liz Martin the newly appointed CEO of Accessible Arts. Liz is also a working musician, fronting her own band.

She discusses her lived experience as an artist with a disability and the unseen costs involved in working in the creative industries.

Original broadcast date 26.06.2022

This week, inclusive Agenda talks to Laura Milkins, Executive Director, Inclusion and Wellbeing at NSW Department of Education.

Original broadcast date 29.05.2022

This week, inclusive Agenda talks to Meagan Lawson, CEO of the NSW Council on the Ageing. The program focusses on some substantial research commissioned by the Council which reveals more older Australians now think their quality of life is deteriorating than ever before.

Vivian Schenker speaks with Queenie Tran, who has devoted her career to changing the way we think about our homes. She became known for her role at Summer Housing, a not-for-profit which became Australia's largest specialist disability accommodation (SDA) provider, and recently joined Conscious Investment Management, focusing on securing the funds needed for such housing.

Mary Murphy is a Sydney-based facilitator at PALZ, a group which supports professional people with Alzheimer's disease. She speaks with Vivian Schenker about the history of the global organisation, and how they assist with workplace accessibility and social connection.

Learn more or form your own group at palzglobal.org.au

This episode features Nicky Sloan, an experienced advocate for community services in the Illawarra region, and current CEO of the wonderful Community Industry Group. She speaks to Vivian Schenker about how the company assists people with disability, their impact on local government policies, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their work.

In this episode we catch up with Nas Campanella, a trail-blazing journalist who has worked with the ABC for over a decade. She speaks of her background, the technicalities of her job, covering the Disability Royal Commission, and challenging expectations of people with disability.

Inclusive Agenda talks to Graeme Innes, lawyer, company director, activist and former Disability Commissioner about his life, changing attitudes and what he calls the “soft bigotry of low expectations”.