PPV Bulletin – June 2023

In this issue:

• Out and about – Meeting with Minister Michael Sukkar MP Federal Member of Deakin
• Thanking Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) for launching an Australian first policy paper on inclusive services and communities for ageing Polio Survivors.
• Late effects of Polio  Petra Quinlan-Turner
  Board Member of Post Polio Victoria

+ much more

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In this issue: PPV Nov 2022

Bulletin Board 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

Bulletin Board October 2022

• Class Action Update
• Upcoming Conference (AAG)
• PPV Committee Member Robyn Abrahams features on 9News

+ much more

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In this issue: September PPV

Bulletin Board September 2022

• 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

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In this issue:

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Bulletin Board August 2022

• ANUHD Update – Australian Network for Universal Housing Design
• Polio Australia Information Sessions
• International Polio News Updates

+ much more

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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

Bulletin Board July 2022

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In this issue:

• Update from PPV President Shirley Glance
• NDIS and Disability Updates Australia
• NDIS Rally, article from PPV member Susan Shaab

+ much more

Bulletin Board June 2022

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In this issue:

• Disability Updates and Helpful ideas
• Change of upcoming Bendigo Clinic
• Winter virus surge – COVID19 and Flu jabs

+ much more

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In this issue:

• Disability Update covering Covid, Access issues & Human rights commission
• Infectious Disease Updates
• In Home Safety Check List

+ much more

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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

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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

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Bulletin Board Feb 2022

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This document sets out our vision, mission and strategic priority areas going forward for the next three years.

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This long awaited edition is packed full of news and information on PPV’s response to the coronavirus, including

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In this issue:

+ much more

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In this issue:

• Tributes to Dr Margaret Cooper OAM
• Committee member’s stories
• PPV’s Accessible Housing Submission
• Olympian Wilma Glodean Rudolph

+ much more

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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

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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.

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In this issue:

• Breast Cancer Network DVD
• PPVs Collaborations

• Wayne and Ravy Getting Busy in Cambodia

+ much more

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In this issue:

• Review of “The Broken Boy” By Patrick Cockburn

• Update on our meetings with Polio Services

• Standing together against transport cuts

+ much more

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In this issue:

• PPV attend en masse at the Australasian Pacific Post Polio Conference

• Polio services – meeting with St Vincent’s hospital

+ more

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In this issue:

• Quality patient care: the polio survivor’s perspective

• Visit to Shepparton

+ much more

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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’.

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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

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In this issue:

• Accessibility and inclusion in Victoria’s national parks
• Bushfire planning leaves behind people with disabilities

+ much more

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• “Walk With Me” Fundraiser report
• Vale Beth Brodribb
• Super Stops – Melbourne Wheelchair Accessible Tram Stops
• PPV’s Advocacy Survey

+ much more

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• 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

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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

 

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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

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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

 

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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

 

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In this issue:

• Introducing New PPV Committee members
• Polio Australia’s 2011 AGM/Planning Meeting
• Polio in Parliament
• Ramesh Ferris Polio Foundation

+ much more

 

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In this issue:

• European Conference on Post Polio Syndrome report back
• The global Polio situation

+ much more

 

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In this issue:

• European Conference on Post Polio Syndrome
• Thanks to Blackburn Lions Club
• Rotary’s commitment to Post Polio

+ much more

 

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In this issue:

• Polio Australia retreat at Mt Eliza
• NDIS Productivity Commission submission
• Legal help for community groups

+ much more

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