Launching the 2025 CPActive Champions Steering Committee
CPActive is excited to introduce the newly onboarded 2025 CPActive Champions Steering Committee, a dynamic group of young people with lived experience of cerebral palsy who are leading the CPActive communities charge for change. On Wednesday 15th January, this dedicated group of advocates met for a full-day intensive at our Allambie site to build relationships, […]
Minister Bill Shorten chats Campaign Strategy with our CPActive Champions
NDIS Minister Bill Shorten visited the Cerebral Palsy Alliance office at Allambie last week, to hear from our CPActive Champions about their Blaze the Trail campaign. Since the Blaze the Trail campaign launched two years ago, Champions have been making the rounds and meeting with policy makers, including NSW Minister for Disability Inclusion Kate Washington, […]
CPActive is there for Hannah Diviney’s National Press Club Address
On December 4, writer, actress, and advocate Hannah Diviney spoke at National Press Club, delivering a powerful address that resonated deeply with our CPActive community. It was a groundbreaking moment, as Hannah was the first woman with a visible disability to grace the iconic stage in Canberra. About time! For many of us in the […]
Blaze the Trail campaign update: CPActive won’t stop working towards inclusive pathways from education to employment
Back in April, I spoke at the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into young people with disability in education settings. After four months, the Inquiry responded to the voices of lived experience and experts on inclusive education and handed down its findings in a 222-page report. If you are interested in reading our submission, see it here. I […]
CPActive Information Session for the NSW Government Graduate Program- the details you need for your application
CPActive proudly presented the NSW Government Graduate Program Information Session on Tuesday 6th August, in collaboration with the NSW Public Service. Hosted by CPActive Steering Committee member, Aman Gopalani, the event included an address by Deputy Commissioner of the NSW Public Service Chris Lamb, a full presentation on the graduate program and a Q&A with […]
“Forging our own path”: CPActive Champions advocate for a disability-led CPActive
CPActive, the Cerebral Palsy Alliance grassroots disability advocacy platform, together with our campaign community of champions and allies, is proud to mark a new era of advocacy with the launch of the CPActive Champion Steering Committee. The Steering Committee’s establishment is driven by our passionate CPActive Champions ensuring that the voice of lived experience is […]
CPActive Champions meet key politician to step up Blaze the Trail campaign
Members of CPActive’s ‘Blaze the Trail’ working group have stepped up the campaign for inclusive education and employment policies in a meeting with the Hon Kate Washington MP, Minister for Disability Inclusion. CPActive Champions Marusha Rowe, Nicole Kozelj, Riley Saban and Saranna Schultz, joined by CPActive lead Teigan Butchers, met Minister Washington and key staff […]
CPActive amplifies the voices of lived experience at the NDIS Review
It’s been a big few weeks for the disability sector – and CPActive was right at the centre of it! Just before Christmas, a dozen of our CPActive champions were invited to attend the NDIS Review town hall in Sydney to hear directly from the architects of the NDIS about the milestone review and what […]
2023 wrapped!
Wow, what an incredible year we’ve had! Our CPActive community has achieved so much and we wanted to take the time to appreciate everything we’ve done over the last twelve months: We launched the ‘Blaze the Trail’ campaign Led entirely by our CPActive champions, we kicked off a campaign to improve pathways from school […]
CPActive Champions recognised for their leadership at ICMS panel
Champions Nicholas Lapsley and Meret Hassanen spoke at a Masterclass panel at the International College of Management Sydney on Diversity in Leadership. Led by Dr Trevor Clark, the Undergraduate Dean at ICMS, the panel explored the importance of diversity in leadership and what we can learn from it. Nicholas spoke eloquently on the assumptions that […]