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An ICON and its Services - Disappearing

March 24, 2023

Confirming the rumours...
It is with great sadness that after almost 50 years of providing impartial advice to people with disabilities, seniors, carers, allied health professionals and many more others;
AT Australia is to close its services on 14th April 2023.

We have fallen between a gap in government policy and understanding.
1) NSW government who used to fund us, withdrawn its funding because we are an information provider and information provision is a Federal responsibility.
2) Australian government will not fund us because they classify us in advocacy group. Even as late as a week ago, Minister Shorten insisted that we were an advocacy agency, not an information provider, hence a state responsibility.

We have been doing everything we can to build our income but it wasn’t fast enough.
The outcome: Loss of impartial information and key resources for the community.
Public lose impartial advices from us! People with disabilities and their service providers will be without a key resource.
Additionally sad and unthinkable is the Grant round released last week, to develop and demonstrate home living environments for the purposes of impartial information on how people can live; when we are about to get rid of our display in Blacktown; our home automated, full sized apartment built to the Liveable Housing Design Guidelines, we have it since 2012!

Are governments only interested in passing the buck regardless of the outcome?
Do they understand the empowerment that comes from being able to make a truly informed decision?
Can you Help us? Please Write to:
- (State) to the NSW Disability minister
- (Federal) to Minister Bill Shorten on minister.shorten@dss.gov.au

Robyn Chapman, CEO
AT Australia

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AT Australia Training - Closing

29 March 2023 - 31 July 2023

We are sad to announce that all registrations to our Training cources are closed.
Due to the lack of Federal and NSW State government funding support, we have fallen through the gap. AT-Aust will be closing its doors on April 14th 2023.
Should a miracle happen that we receive funding for our core business of information provisions, we will resume our Training service. We'll publish the Happy news here.
We understand this may be inconvenient for you all, but it is now unavoidable.
Not only will you lose your Home Mods and impartial AT training provider, you and your clients will lose a valuable AT information service.

If you have any questions please email us training@at-aust.org
For more info or you might want to support us.
Thank you.

Assistive Technology Australia