Representing Polio Survivors throughout Australia
FACE-TO-FACE TREATMENTS FOR PEOPLE WITH LATE EFFECTS OF POLIO
Position Paper – Please click on the link below to access the full report
Polio Australia Position Paper – ongoing services during COVID lockdowns
Please click on link below to access Barbary Clarke’s full Annual Report
Media Release Oct 2021
Dr Peter Freckleton, Board Member of PPV
“In an Australian first, and one that will shock the nation, a formal complaint about discrimination against someone with a disability naming the Prime Minister as representative of the Commonwealth of Australia has been accepted for consideration by the Australian Human Rights Commission”.
Please click on the link below to access the full release content
2021 PPV Survey Results
Please click on the link below to review the 2021 PPV Survey Results
PPV_Survey Report October 2021
Post Polio Survey Breakdown 2021
Please see below YouTube video by Dr Elizabeth Finkel AM from June 2020 titled: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Plagues and Preventing Panic
Please see below audio from Shirley Glance’s interview with Gaytana from Southern FM – Sounds of Bayside. This was recorded on Tuesday 29th June at 10am on Gaytana’s show, Best Medicine.
Please see link to below article that was published in The Age newspaper on 3rd May 2021 – Falling off the ‘magical cliff’: Call for review of NDIS age limit:
Please see below private Letters To The Editor that were published in The Age from:
Shirley Glance OAM – president of Post Polio Victoria
Dr Peter Freckleton – board member
Liz Telford OAM – past president of Post Polio Victoria
The Age Letters To The Editor May 2021
Please see below link about phase 1b of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. To check your eligibility and find your local service, use the eligibility checker or consult your GP or Specialist:
If you missed the interview on Friday 5th March with Peter Freckleton on #ABC #VirginiaTrioli
Thank you Peter for sharing your story so publicly.
Here it is:
Please see attached PDFs from Polio Australia
Please see below links for updates on the COVID-19 vaccines:
https://www.tga.gov.au/covid-19-vaccine-safety-monitoring-and-reporting
Please see below links for updates on the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out:
https://www.health.gov.au/resources/collections/covid-19-vaccine-aged-care-stakeholder-kit
https://www.health.gov.au/resources/collections/covid-19-vaccine-aged-care-stakeholder-kit
Post Polio Victoria (PPV) opposes the mooted introduction of “independent assessments” for access to the NDIS.
A change from the current assessment model to the mooted “independent assessment funded outsourced model” is unnecessary and potentially deleterious, in that it threatens current and potential participants with reduced assistance or even exclusion from access altogether. There is strong potential to re-traumatise polio sufferers, who need trusted health care providers who are essential to safe continuity of care.
It is undesirable to divert funding from resources for polio sufferers to an additional layer of bureaucracy, regressing from a human rights best practice model to a Dickensian welfare model.
The health and well-being of polio and wider disability communities must not be compromised by interference with the NDIS for reasons of cost-cutting or on any grounds whatsoever.”
Post Polio Victoria Inc.
T: 0431 702 137
Please read attached information from the Australian Red Cross about the Extreme Heat Response Program.
There are a limited number of registrations still available for HeatREDi this summer. If you or anyone you know may benefit from receiving calls from the HeatREDi program, please register here.
This information is provided from our Post Polio Health International. We are aware that the possibility of the COVID-19 vaccine coming to Australia in March 2021. This information has come from America but please click on the link for more information: