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Crossing borders Youth Camp – Camp Coordinator Announcement
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Crossing borders Youth Camp - Camp Coordinator Announcement
Hi everyone! My name is Erin. Deaf Australia and Deaf Connect have been collaborating and they have an exciting announcement for Crossing Borders Youth Camp 2023. I will be your camp coordinator for 2023 camp. How exciting! I’ve been involved in various camps, meeting new friends, skills and experiences has been truly worthwhile. I am privileged to have the opportunity to provide you with a wonderful worthwhile camp! Youth applications and leader applications will be released soon also the venue of where the camp will be too. I’m sure you’re all excited waiting for camp! If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me anytime - [email protected]
Thank you, bye!
Media Release (English)
Sign up for a booking with Auslan Santa
Suicide Postvention Update
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I would like to share a message on behalf of a few organisations – Deaf Australia, Deaf Connect, Deaf Victoria and Expression Australia. We would like to acknowledge recent events in Australia that had profound impact on the deaf community. We have lost two amazing men, we recognise the immediate need in the community to receive support through this sad period.
The four organisations know that the Deaf community needs support now from various organisations and services, and to understand how to support each other.
We would like to confirm that we are collaborating with Standby organization. They specialize in post suicide supports. We want to ensure the community receive right support they need during this time. We intent to create resources for you to use, ensure there’s right professionals and interpreters available for you to meet.
We are focusing on what we can do now, what we can do in the coming weeks, and what we can do in the long term. A lot of work is being done in the background, and we want to be transparent and will share as much as possible – including more information about supports, services, resources in Auslan. We are seeking expert advice and support too.
We apologise for release the information today not earlier this week. We wanted to have right information for you all. We will also be sharing what services and resources are available in Auslan following expert advice from Australia and overseas.
We also welcome any person with experience in deaf mental health to reach out your interest in supporting the community through counselling, support person or resources development by contacting Deaf Australia at [email protected]. Additionally, if you would like to get more information or let us know something, please also contact me at the same email address.
There will be another video coming up later today about the Standby organisation.
There will be more videos coming up. Please take care of yourself and each other.
Lifeline: www.lifeline.org.au Text 13 11 14
Beyond blue: www.beyondblue.org.au
Mensline: www.mensline.org.au
Standby: www.standbysupport.com.au
Deaf Australia - [email protected]
Come meet Auslan Santa!
Special Santa Announcement!*
*New dates added
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Hello! I've got an exciting announcement! We (Deaf Australia) have teamed up with Westfield Shopping Centre to create an Auslan Deaf Santa!
Deaf Santa will visit three different shopping centres. NSW Parramatta on 26 November. VIC Southland on 27 November. And QLD on 2 December.
It's important that you make a booking online before you go! Make sure you have a look at the link to the booking system through Westfield's website. That's where you'll be able to book!
Alright, if you want more information you can have a look at our website! Bye!
Sign up information
NSW
Westfield Parramatta
Saturday 26 November
3 – 6pm
Saturday 03 December
5 – 8pm
VIC
Westfield Southland
Sunday 27 November
3 – 6pm
QLD
Westfield Chermside
Friday 2 December
3 – 6pm
Friday 9 December
5 – 8pm
Media Release (English)
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Deaf children up to $367,445 worse off without early Auslan intervention
Media Release from Deaf Connect
Media Release (English)
View on Deaf Connect website
DRC Deaf Public Hearing
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DRC Auslan Video:
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Hello, I’m Alex and I work here at the Disability Royal Commission.
We are holding a public hearing soon that will look at the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability.
This includes experiences of people who are Deaf and identify as culturally linguistically diverse, as members of the Deaf community using Auslan.
The hearing starts on Monday 24 October and goes until Friday 28 October. It will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne.
You can attend the hearing in person. Or you can follow the hearing on the Royal Commission’s website. It will be broadcast live with Auslan interpreters and captions.
The first part of the hearing, Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th October, will focus on the Deaf community; d/Deaf, Deafblind and hard of hearing people will share their experiences.
Experts from the Deaf community will help us better understand:
- the importance of Auslan and Deaf identity
- barriers to acquiring Auslan, for example in schools
- the role of interpreters, and access to information and communication in Auslan.
This will help the Royal Commission better understand how Auslan and Deaf identity can help prevent violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Evidence in the hearing will help inform the Royal Commission’s Final Report and recommendations for a more inclusive society.
For more information, visit our website and search ‘Public hearing 29’.
Join us on Monday 24 October for this special occasion!
More information: www.disability.royalcommission.gov.au
Please join us with Deaf Connect and Expression Australia to watch the DRC Deaf Public Hearing together.
This event will live stream the Disability Royal Commission Deaf Public Hearing on Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th October.
This is an event will be held at various locations around Australia in person, where Deaf people can come together, watch the hearing and share their experiences. You can check out more information regarding the public hearing on the DRC website.
Sign up for the event in your city below:
Deaf Australia Awards 2022
Deaf Australian of the Year
Elise Stewart
Founder of Deaf Hub Bendigo – reducing barriers and isolation amongst the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community members accessing support and information in the regional area. Including:
- Social events
- Workshops
- Visiting clients
- Creation of a space for Deaf people
- Providing employment to Deaf people
She works both in volunteer and paid capacity. She has a passion to raise awareness of Deaf youth, elder people and parents of deaf kids.
Also supported all of the submissions to DRC in the region (400 hours worth of videos)
Deaf Youth of the Year
Sam Martin
Sam invested his passion about Deaf arts.
- Always looks for strategies to share his achievements with the Deaf community
- throughout Australia and in New York, which showed how Deaf people could be involved in the creation of a movie from start to end
- Established PAH Stories, a theatre performance which allows Deaf queer people to share their stories
Community Volunteer of the Year
Margaret van Leeuwen
- Volunteered for 45 years for the Ballarat Deaf Social Club Inc with different roles in the committee
- She became life member in 1999 for BDSC
- Margaret is a quiet, hardworking & devoted community minded person
- Margaret likes being involved with Deaf Community, and feels a real sense of belonging,
- Always ready to help with many social activities, Starlight Balls and special events
- Always the first person to set up the hall for club’s activities , guest speakers and AGM meetings and the last person to leave the venue!
- She also works full time and loves bushwalking .
- E R Noble award recipient 2001/2002.
36th Annual General Meeting
Deaf Australia Inc will hold its thirty-sixth (36th) Annual General Meeting on Monday 19th September at 7.00 PM (AEST) online via zoom.
Important notice: The meeting must provide members with a reasonable opportunity to participate, as such, put questions to board members and vote online. To register in advance for the Annual General Meeting: Register email [email protected] After registering your interest, we will check your details against our membership database, and you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the AGM. Important note: Make sure your full name and email address correspond with our database. The AGM will be livestreamed on Facebook for non-members.
Auslan Shop: I sign therefore I am
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Hello! Exciting news about a new book, now available to buy thought the Auslan Shop website.
This book is written by Juhana Salonen, a Deaf Finnish. Their sign name is 'J' turn right movement.
He wrote this book called 'I sign, Therefore I Am'. Here is a snapshot of the blurb:
is the powerful story of a deaf young man struggling with this identity, and of his growth into a sign language user who is proud of his culture.
Being the deaf child of hearing parents and the only deaf person in my early surroundings: these were the fondations for the identity crisis
I underwent in my youth. The crisis could have had a tragic end, but fortunately in my case it did not. It took years of searching, however,
to finally grow into my identity as a deaf person and to adopt Finnish Sign Language as my mother tongues. I wrote this book to share my life
experiences with members of any linguistic or cultural minority. This highly topical issue in society, as such minorities are increasingly in the limelight.
Many automatically assume that minorities have it bad, and that their member deviate - in a negative sense - from the majority population also in other ways.
This book offers excellent opportunities for seeing the world though a deaf person's eyes and for correcting misguided views. At the same time, it provides compelling evidence of the benefits of deafness and sign language for both the deaf and the population at large.
You can order this book now through our Auslan Shop website! Read this story about Juhana, a special Deaf from Finland. Thank you. Bye for now.
NSW Inquiry: Auslan interpretation for broadcasting
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This is an important announcement for the NSW Deaf community.
Within the NSW Government there are two chambers, being the Lower House and the Upper House.
The Upper House is called the Legislative Council within Parliament.
There is a proposal which we are submitting for inquiry called ‘Auslan interpretation for broadcasting’.
This proposal calls for, discussion within the Legislative Council, proposals, meetings, announcements, any form discourse, that there must be an Auslan interpreter present.
This proposal is not calling for an interpreter in all other areas of the Government, only discourse within the Legislative Council.
This call for interpreters to be present is to make sure the NSW Deaf community who want to be informed with what is happening within the Government, have access.
Within the proposal there are ‘terms of reference’, which are, the terms or needs specified in the proposal, what they actually look like, the process of implementing and sustaining the terms. This makes sure that the defined terms and criteria are met and not deviated. These are referred to in short as TOR.
The TOR are very clear and concise, they state, the UN Convention on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities must be followed, which includes providing access for all people, Deaf people included.
The inquiry must investigate if an Auslan interpreter can be present in Parliament, and if not then what other options can be made accessible, for example captioning or other methods, to make sure it is accessible for all people. Also, to be investigated is any other factors linked to accessibility within the Legislative Council to ensure full accessibility for the Deaf community.
Deaf Australia is asking the NSW Deaf community to review these submissions, provide comment if you agree or disagree, your ideas, recommendations, changes, anything that can support this notion.
If you would like to support but don’t know how, please contact Deaf Australia and we can support you with advice through the process.
This inquiry will close on the 5th August, which is fast approaching and your submissions will need to come through prior to the 5th August.
Thank you.
Factsheet: Making a submission
(Auslan version)
Terms of Reference (TOR)
(Auslan version)