5.5 million Australians live with a disability, and nearly 90 per cent have communication, mobility, or self-care limitations.
While such limitations can restrict access to school or employment, a United Nations initiative is pushing to increase awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with disability.
2024’s theme for International Day of People with Disability is leadership, and it makes the case that a person's disability enhances leadership, not inhibits it.
Uncle Paul Constable Calcott is a proud Wiradjuri artist with a disability, now living on Gubbi Gubbi country in south east Queensland.
He tells ABC NewsRadio’s Thomas Oriti how having a disability develops strength and resilience.
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This year's International Day of People with Disability focus is on leadership.