Deaf Australia is an active member of the Australian Standards Committee which reviews the International Standards Obligations (ISO) 13611:2014 and to modify to meet Australian’s context for provisioning of interpreting services in Australia.
Standards Australia has released a Draft Standards for Public Comment and you can find Draft Standards on this website.
Public Comment Closing Date is on 11 December 2018. 
You can either send comment/ feedback directly to Deaf Australia at [email protected] or go on website provided in the document (you will be required to register on Standards Australia’s Website).
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Nomination for Board of Director closes midnight tonight.
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Deaf Australia is conducting a survey on Deaf Acknowledgment.
The survey includes three (3) versions of the Deaf Acknowledgement and are asking the members of the Deaf Community to select one. The version with a majority will then go to Annual General Meeting on 27 October 2018 (Canberra) to vote for Deaf Acknowledgement.
Please go to Survey Monkey and complete the Survey (survey includes Auslan videos).
Survey close on Friday 19 October 2018 at midnight.
Thank you.
 

All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD)  launched the Sign On For Literacy on 8 November 2017 in Budapest, Hungary during the 3rd International Conference of the World Federation of the Deaf.
The Sign On For Literacy competition is organised by All Children Reading partnered with USAID, World Vision and the Australian Government, in collaboration with the WFD, Nyle DiMarco Foundation and Deaf Child Worldwide. This competition seeks technology-based innovations to increase access to sign languages and literacy interventions for deaf children. These innovations will assist parents, educators, communities, and governments in enhancing early childhood development outcomes, improving access to local sign languages, and increasing literacy outcomes of deaf children.
The competition criteria can be found on the All Children Reading website
The submission deadline is 16 February, 2018.

The National Transport Commission (NTC) has released proposed revised Assessing Fitness to Drive guidelines as part of the current review of the medical standards. Deaf Australia (together with Deaf Victoria) has been instrumental in the drafting of the revised guidelines and encourages all members of the Deaf community to read and provide feedback to the Commission.

The review of the Assessing Fitness to Drive guidelines has taken into account:

• advances in medical knowledge & practice
• changes to the driving environment and policies
• stakeholder feedback on the operation of the standards, including any problems faced by medical professionals currently doing the testing
• findings from relevant recent inquiries
• any other new issues affecting the medical standards

The changes were developed after the NTC released a draft consultation paper in October 2014 and received valuable input from medical practitioners, consumer health organisations, government transport departments, driver licensing authorities, unions, operators and transport industry associations.
The NTC is seeking feedback from key stakeholders including the medical community, industry groups and associations, transport operators and their employees, driver licensing authorities, transport departments, unions, regulators and coroners. Additionally, all submissions are welcome from any interested party.
The NTC will consider these submissions when drafting final recommendations and providing them to the Transport and Infrastructure Council at the May 2016 meeting.
The Papers can be found at the following link (scroll to bottom of page for Consultation Report, draft AFTD guidelines, and Submission Template):
http://www.ntc.gov.au/current-projects/reviewing-assessing-fitness-to-drive/ 
Submissions will be accepted from now until Friday 8 January 2016 (COB).