2020 December 2020 The presumption of capacity: How human rights are ignored in guardianship and administration proceedings 80% Victorias COVID related deaths Aged Care residents Disability Royal Commission finds Federal Government responsible for serious failures during COVID-19 November 2020 Gold Coast mum Melinda Louise Walsh sentenced in court for Twitter attack on social-worker Disability domestic violence a catch-22 as Indigenous children removed from mothers royal commission hears People with disabilities suffer often shocking violence abuse and neglect report Australia aged care Inquiry hears 50 sexual assaults happen each week Disability royal commission to hear confronting stories from carers and Indigenous people living with disability October 2020 Courts-Tasmania Supreme Court appeal overturns judges previous decision on mans right to live on yacht ‘Do not resuscitate and the consequences of not following it Carer Michelle Stitt to face trial charged over disturbing neglect of elderly woman who ended up in intensive care Former aged care worker plead guilty to stealing 132,000 from resident Victoria coronavirus intellectually disabled prisoners punished without oversight by Office of the Public Advocate Despite more than 30 major inquiries governments still havent fixed aged care. 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