Pin, Pose, Post
Pin, Pose, Post for International Day of People with Disability is an opportunity for a range of Australians with and without disability to share images of themselves wearing the colourful IDPwD ribbon and talk about how the IDPwD is important to them. This may be because of personal experiences, the experiences of friends and family, or an understanding of the urgent need to break down all barriers to social inclusion for people with disability.
Please see below the Pin, Pose, Post gallery and all our wonderful contributors supporting the day in 2011 by wearing the IDPwD ribbon and sharing what the day means to them.
If you’d like to participate please email idpwd@fahcsia.gov.au
I support IDPwD because it highlights the fact that with the right support, Australians with disability are effective contributors to community - Hamish MacDonald, Gold medal winning Paralympian and Sport Participation Advisor at the Australian Sports Commission"I support IDPwD because it’s a way to change attitudes and build our profile and presence in Australia - Craig Wallace, National Coordinator of International Day of People with Disability and member of the ABC Advisory Council"Virginia Haussegger is an award winning journalist, author, commentator and face of ABC TV News in Canberra and supports Pin, Pose, Post for International Day of People with Disability on 3 December 2011."I am pleased to send my best wishes to everyone supporting the International Day of People with Disability.
A productive and inclusive society is one that recognises the potential in all its citizens. Today, I encourage employers to identify opportunities they can provide for people with a disability. As a society, we should focus on what people can do—not what they can’t do.
I congratulate Nican on its advocacy and support for people with a disability. I hope that this year’s Pin, Pose, Post campaign is a success.
The Hon Tony Abbott MHR, Leader of the Opposition"I support IDPwD because it is great to know that around the world we join in celebrating our diverse community by holding an event to showcase support from within the wider community.
- Dot Newton JP Councillor for the City of Wanneroo"I support IDPwD because it’s important that the world know that everyone has abilities that contribute to a better world.
- Eccentric visual artist and anime nerd living with Fibromyalgia"I support International Day of People With Disability because people with disability I know and care about need the same opportunities as everybody.
Professor Glyn Davis AC, Vice-Chancellor
The University of Melbourne"I support IDPwD because the aspirations of people with disability are the same as yours and mine, and nothing should stand in their way.
Annette Ellis, Former Shadow Minister Assisting the Minister for Family and Community Services on Disabilities"I support International Day of People with Disability because it gives us an opportunity to think about making more inclusive communities. - Catherine Viney, Chief Executive Officer, COSMOS Inc"I support International Day of People with Disability because it celebrates the achievements of people with a disability ... AND we can have a party! – Jo Walters, Project Officer CARA Inc"IDPwD is about dancing and celebrating me and my friends. It is my time to be special - Rebecca Fielding, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"I support IDPwD because it proves that just because you have a disability it doesn’t mean that you can’t do things. I love that our program has the ‘Celebration of Ability’ event every year and that we get to do lots of different things at each one – Cheryl Treffery, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"I support IDPwD because I want people see me for what I am – a cool, funny guy! - Jason Exton, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"I support IDPwD because it is a way of highlighting the needs of people with Down Syndrome - Joline McConaghy, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"I like IDPwD because I get to go out and celebrate with friends from my group (City of Playford Social Inclusion Program). I love to sing and dance – Ronnel C Gonzales, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"I love to celebrate my life and the life of my friends on IDPwD - Tony Bryson, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"We are proud to support the International Day of People with Disability which promotes the participation of people with disability in an inclusive Australian society that enables people with disability to fulfill their potential as equal citizens. This objective drives everything the Australian Government is doing to support people with disability. Thank you to everyone involved in the celebration of International Day.
—Senator the Hon. Jan McLucas, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers with Jenny Macklin MP, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs."I support International Day of People with Disability because impairment is a fact of life. It is community attitudes that create disability. We need to change attitudes to impairment now. Discrimination against people with disability breaches human rights.
—Bill Shorten MP, Federal Member for Maribyrnong, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation"I support International Day of People with Disability because It shows us not as victims, not as heroes, but as ordinary people getting on with our lives in the community. - Graeme Innes AM, Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Human rights advocate, cricket tragic and doting dad."I support International Day of People with Disability because more than one fifth of the population live with special needs, IDPwD is one way of recognising the contribution of the sector to the whole community and there is a special gift people with special needs give and bring to us—compassion tolerance, patience and often unconditional love. - Hannah Semler, Director Belconnen Arts Centre"I support IDPwD because I want to recognise and celebrate the contribution that people with a disability make to my work place and to my department’s achievements. - Phillip Glyde, Deputy Secretary Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry"I support International Day of People with Disability because every Australian has the right to participate in our vibrant arts and culture.
- Kate Larson, CEO of Arts Access Australia"I support IDPWD because, as a totally blind person, it's a chance to celebrate my greatest achievement: the happy family life I share with my wife Cathy, my son Joel and daughter Lucy. - Michael Taggart, Disability Community Leader for IDPwD 2011."I enjoy IDPWD because it is fun and people get to see me at my best.
- Bradley Platten, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"I like IDPwD because we celebrate your life and my life with dancing.
- Julie Davies, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"I support IDPwD because 'A little bit of magic happens' at City of Playford’s Celebration of Ability IDPwD event; people see abilities not disabilities. - Pia (Pearl Isobel) Alchin, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"I like that IDPwD has lots of events to celebrate disABILITY, it gives me a chance to make more friends in the community. - Gordon Woodman, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"I like IDPwD because it shows what we are able to do, our abilities and it brings out the best in us. - Stephen Jackson, Social Inclusion Program, City of Playford"I support International Day of People with Disability because it’s about time that we made sure that a fair go extended to all Australians. - Andrew Leigh MP, Federal Member for Fraser"I support International Day of People with Disability because the measure of our humanity is our love for those worse off than ourselves. - Malcolm Turnbull MP, Federal Member for Wentworth, Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband."I support International Day of People with Disability because it reminds us that we should focus on a person’s ability, not their disability. - Stephen Jones MP, Federal Member for Throsby"I support International Day of People with Disability because it gives us an opportunity to focus on ability and the person. The more we stop drawing lines in the sand and defining people by their disability the closer we move to a truly inclusive society.
- Bill Forrester, Founder, Travability"I support IDPwD because people with psychosocial disability are amongst the most socially excluded in our nation, from work, from education and from community.
- Hon. Mark Butler MP, Federal Member for Port Adelaide, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing"I support IDPwD because it serves to remind us how marginalised people with disability remain across the world, despite the enormous contribution they make as members of society.
- Michael Bleasdale, Executive Director, Leadership Team, People with Disability Australia"I support IDPwD because I strongly believe in reducing barriers to participation in the arts, enabling creative expression and experience for everybody.
– Caro Roach – artsAbility officer with the ACT Community Arts Office, working to support artists living with disability and disadvantage"I support IDPwD because it’s my chance to get people thinking about people with disability, and stop treating them as though they are invisible.
- Hank Jongen, General Manager, Department of Human Services"I support International Day of People with Disability because everyone has the right to live a happy and fulfilling life. Because is it wrong that more than a billion people do not enjoy the same opportunities or inclusiveness that many of us take for granted because they have a disability.
- The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs"Award winning blogger Carly Findlay is supporting Pin, Pose, Post for IDPwD and inviting others to do so through an International Day of People with Disability blog carnival! Curious? Find out more by tuning into Radio Carly, share the post and get Blog Hopping:
http://carlyfindlay.blogspot.com/2011/11/international-day-of-people-with.html"I support IDPwD because it is an opportunity for the global community to come together to recognise and acknowledge the contribution people with disability worldwide make to their communities.
– Senator Mitch Fifield, Shadow Minister for Disabilities, Carers and the Voluntary Sector"I support IDPwD because it’s a great reminder to take stock and look at how far we’ve come as a movement since IYDP in 1981. Our achievements as a movement are significant and it reminds us that while we still have work to do, change is possible and we have great strength.
– Stella Young, disability activist, comedian and editor of ABC Ramp Up."I support IDPwD because I believe together we can achieve an inclusive and enabling society - for people of all abilities.
- Minister for Disability Services, Mental Health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Curtis Pitt."Snedden Hall & Gallop Lawyers support IDPwD because we believe that everybody deserves the right to be given equal opportunity.
– The team at Snedden Hall & Gallop Lawyers."
