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ISSN 1447–2023
Editorial
Editor Kelly Stone
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Donna Tsironis. Cover photograph of Dr Dinesh
Palipana, courtesy Griffith University
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’m delighted to be the new editor one of the world’s most gruelling
of Link magazine, taking over challenges by swimming the English
from Rebecca Somerfield who Channel, and meet Victorian mum
has done a fabulous job editing the Mandy McCracken who is back on the
magazine over the past three years. bike thanks to a Tikkun Olam Makers
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Our feature this month delves into
years and it’s a privilege to take the Employment. We talk to disability
reins at a time when the magazine enterprises involved in the My Job
continues to grow, both in print and Counts campaign, as the Fair Work
online, and through its weekly email Commission is set to decide how
newsletter and Facebook presence. wages for workers with disability are
With one in five Austral ians
reporting living with disability
determined in February 2018.
Our Contribution comes from
(Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2015), Melbourne woman Donna Tsironis,
disability touches nearly everyone’s titled ‘My husband is my carer’, which
lives in some way. I’m sure many will identify with and
Maybe you work in the sector,
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enjoy reading. Our Travel Contributor
maybe you care for someone who Craig Sheather tells us the best
does, or maybe, like me, you have places to see in Hong Kong, while in
a family member with disability. other travel news, a world-first resort
Whether you’re impacted directly by for people with spinal cord injury has
disability, work in the sector, or just opened in New South Wales.
want to be informed, Link shines a I hope you enjoy reading this
light on the latest issues impacting edition. The Link team wishes all
all of us. readers, advertisers and supporters a
In this edition of Link, we look at,
if one in five people have a disability,
happy festive season and a safe and
prosperous new year.
why isn’t the medical profession
better represented by doctors with
disabilities? We catch up with Dr
Dinesh Palipana from campaign
group Doctors with Disabilities on
Kelly Stone
breaking down the barriers.
We also meet Brisbane man
Michael Powell, who has completed
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