In this issue: PPV Nov 2022
- Upcoming Conference (AAG) Please register
- General Notice – PPV AGM – Monday 5th Dec at 11am
- PPV Committee Member Peter Preckleton features on The Project
+ much more
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In this issue: PPV Oct Bulletin 2022
- Class Action Update
- Upcoming Conference (AAG)
- PPV Committee Member Robyn Abrahams features on 9News
+ much more
In this issue: September PPV
- Medical Alert Cards (please contact PPV for a free card)
- A beautifully written article – Mothers walk through life living with Polio
- Accessible Housing Update
+ much more including; Covid 19 news and Polio world news updates
In this issue:
Please click on the link below to access the full Bulletin
- ANUHD Update – Australian Network for Universal Housing Design
- Polio Australia Information Sessions
- International Polio News Updates
+ much more
In this issue:
- Helpful and informative travel tips including accommodation
- Disability and Covid News from Australia
- QDN, PWDA update
- Great healthy and delicious winter receipes
+ much more
In this issue:
- Update from PPV President Shirley Glance
- NDIS and Disability Updates Australia
- NDIS Rally, article from PPV member Susan Shaab
+ much more
In this issue:
- Disability Updates and Helpful ideas
- Change of upcoming Bendigo Clinic
- Winter virus surge – COVID19 and Flu jabs
+ much more
In this issue:
- Disability Update covering Covid, Access issues & Human rights commission
- Infectious Disease Updates
- In Home Safety Check List
+ much more
In this issue:
- Dylan Alcott calls for free RATs, masks for people
with a disability in first foray into politics - Disability Updates including NDIS Changes
- Support Group Contact List
- Regional Clinic Update 2022
+ much more
In this issue: You will find a new year update for PPV
- Great progress for PPV with interviews and published article with SBS
- The latest Health updates from our Disability Networks
- Sadly we say goodbye to a much loved committee member – Judith Bell
+ much more
Please click on the link below to access the full February 2022 Bulletin
This document sets out our vision, mission and strategic priority areas going forward for the next three years.
This long awaited edition is packed full of news and information on PPV’s response to the coronavirus, including
- Congratulations to Liz Telford OAM ?
- Survey results from PPV members during Covid19.
- PPV’s response to treatment for Covid19 for people who have had polio
- Coronavirus and polio medical advisory
- Biographies of two committee members
- Reviews of ‘Crip Camp’ and ‘Defiant Lives’
+ much more
In this issue:
- Measles return to the USA
- Ageing with Care, Quality and Safety?
- Vale Polly Farmer, Footballer with Polio
- “Women to The Front” book review
- The Inequality of the Disability System for those with Polio
- WHO’s race to prevent polio epidemic in the Pacific
- Regulatory Impact Statement for a minimum access standard in housing
- Review of “The Stolen Marriage.”
+ much more
In this issue:
- Tributes to Dr Margaret Cooper OAM
- Committee member’s stories
- PPV’s Accessible Housing Submission
- Olympian Wilma Glodean Rudolph
+ much more
In this issue:
- Michael Lynch Arts executive and New South Wales polio survivor
- Superheroine Minda Dentler
- Phillip Roth’s Nemesis reviewed
- Congratulations to Shirley Glance OAM!
+ much more
In this issue:
- Post Polio featured on Abc news
- PPV’s 2017 AGM
- PPV’s 2018 Committee
- Good News! re funding + new worker for polio in Victoria
- Representing PPV at Polio Australia
- University of New South Wales report on polio like virus
- Continuity of Service guarantee for older disability recipients after April 1st 2018,
and polio survivors aged 65 and over - Natasha Layton about aids and equipment
- Polio Services Victoria update
- Arts section – about polio people and the arts.
In this issue:
- Breast Cancer Network DVD
- PPVs Collaborations
-
Wayne and Ravy Getting Busy in Cambodia
+ much more
In this issue:
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Review of “The Broken Boy” By Patrick Cockburn
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Update on our meetings with Polio Services
-
Standing together against transport cuts
+ much more
In this issue:
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PPV attend en masse at the Australasian Pacific Post Polio Conference
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Polio services – meeting with St Vincent’s hospital
+ more
In this issue:
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Quality patient care: the polio survivor’s perspective
-
Visit to Shepparton
+ much more
In this issue:
- ‘The Golden Age’ – review of a novel by Joan London, set in a Western Australian polio rehabilitation home for children in the 1950’s.
- NDIS press release by Daniel Andrews
- Report on PPV’s education campaign on respiratory issues
- Advocating in the dining room at Parliament house
- PPV’s letter in ‘The Age’.
In this issue:
- Advocating for equal funding for all people with a life-long disability
- A response to our concerns from Minister Foley
- Report on Polio Australia’s retreat in Torquay, May 2015
- Polio: Life Stage Matters Conference notice
- PWD (People with a disability) media release re the 2015 budget
+ much more
In this issue:
- Accessibility and inclusion in Victoria’s national parks
- Bushfire planning leaves behind people with disabilities
+ much more
- “Walk With Me” Fundraiser report
- Vale Beth Brodribb
- Super Stops – Melbourne Wheelchair Accessible Tram Stops
- PPV’s Advocacy Survey
+ much more
- Pilot Program on Fatigue and Strategies
- Taxi Industry Reform Should Improve Services for People with Disability
- “We’re Still Here” Campaign in Canberra
- Disability Care goes Live
- Polio Australia’s Canberra Campaign
+ much more
In this issue:
- Hospital Protocols for Managing Patients with Post Polio
- Congratulations on the NDIS Bill Endorsed through the Australian Parliament
- Advocacy Working Group Report
- Touched by Polio Art Exhibition and Auction
+ much more
In this issue:
- London Paralympics: two perspectives
- PPV Members join Polio Australia for the “We’re Still Here” Campaign in Canberra
- Tips for booking a Wheelchair Accessible Taxi (WAT) on Christmas Day
- President’s Report to the PPV Annual General Meeting
+ much more
In this issue:
- Polio Australia Mass Canberra Gathering
- Victorian Taxi Industry Inquiry
- The NDIS and polio – how will we fare?
- Did you know…?
Essential Medical Equipment Payment - Vale Joan Gillespie (1937 -2012)
+ much more
In this issue:
- Polio Australia Mass Canberra Gathering
- PPV Represents Victoria at Post Polio Parliamentary Roundtable Discussion
- Post polio syndrome not recognised by doctors
+ much more
In this issue:
- Introducing New PPV Committee members
- Polio Australia’s 2011 AGM/Planning Meeting
- Polio in Parliament
- Ramesh Ferris Polio Foundation
+ much more
In this issue:
- European Conference on Post Polio Syndrome report back
- The global Polio situation
+ much more
In this issue:
- European Conference on Post Polio Syndrome
- Thanks to Blackburn Lions Club
- Rotary’s commitment to Post Polio
+ much more
In this issue:
- Polio Australia retreat at Mt Eliza
- NDIS Productivity Commission submission
- Legal help for community groups
+ much more