We recently made a submission on Tasmania’s Disability Strategy 2025 – 2027 (‘Draft Strategy’) that contained our recommendations on: We included several client stories in our submission and have summarised Steven’s experience below. Steven’s situation is one that many Tasmanians can relate to. Despite showing signs of autism throughout his childhood and adulthood, Steven didn’t…
Notice is given that the Annual General Meeting of the members of Advocacy Tasmania Inc. will be held online on Thursday 17 October 2024 at 9.00am. The primary business of the meeting will be to: To RSVP for the Annual General Meeting please email contact@yoursaytas.org or call 1800 005 131 by no later than COB Friday 4 October 2024. Jim Paterson Public…
This year, our team has very sharply felt our clients’ despair, frustration, and fatigue.To say Tasmanians are doing it tough is an understatement and our clients tell us there is no such thing as a fair go these days. It’s a battle just to get the basics all Tasmanians deserve whether it’s a safe place…
Our campaign to end abhorrent guardianship and administration practices has been the longest, largest, and most time, emotion, and labour-intensive campaign for systemic change we have ever undertaken. So much of the work has been undertaken by employees volunteering their time and hearts, as we are not funded for systemic work of this scale. But…
Our CEO, Leanne Groombridge, said ‘we’re thrilled that from 265 nominations we have been selected as one of the finalists in the Community Award. This is fabulous recognition of our work, and the team should feel very proud of their achievements. Working for our clients to have their rights restored is what we do day-to-day.…