Giancarlo de Vera

Giancarlo de Vera has been a member of Linktree for 6 years and joined in April 2020. The social media accounts linked to from Giancarlo de Vera are: • Instagram • LinkedIn • X Besides social media accounts, gdevera has populated their site with: • GiveOUT Day 2024 - Donate here! • Pro Bono Australia #2022Impact25 Awards • 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians 2021 • NSW Law Society Journal: "People with disability in the legal industry: time for an attitudinal evolution" (14 December 2022) • The Gaurdian: "Advocates say people with disability are increasingly ‘forgotten’ in emergency planning" (11 April 2022) • Sydney Morning Herald: "NDIS service fears over wage decision" (17 March 2022) • VICE Magazine: "For People with Disabilities, Sex Work is Still Grounded in Stigma" (1 March 2022) • ABC News [Live Cross-Over Interview]: People with disability facing uncertainty over religious discrimination bill (10 Feb 2022) • VICE Magazine: "Australia’s Religious Discrimination Bill Could Make Life Hell for People With Disability" (10 Feb 2022) • SBS News: "We’re being used as tools’: Multicultural groups reject support for religious discrimination bill" (9 Feb 2022) • PWDA: Opening Statement to the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs Legislation Committee Inquiry into the NDIS (Particpant Service Gaurantee) Bill 2021 • PWDA: Evidence and Submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into the Disability Support Pension • SBS News: "Government urged to suspend mutual obligations for job seekers amid COVID-19 surge" (12 Jan 2022) • ABC News [Live Cross-Over Interview]: Religious Discrimination Bill (24 Nov 2021) • The Australian: "NDIS patients face ‘traumatic’ appeals process" (19 Nov 2021) • Disability Support Guide: "Disability support workers need to be vaccinated by the end of the month" (12 Nov 2021) • Mirage News: ''Disability advocates to front key NDIS inquiry" (12 Nov 2021) • The Gaurdian: "NDIS providers used unauthorised restraints on clients over a million times in 12 months" (10 Nov 2021) • SBS News: "Multicultural LGBTIQ+ people face violence in their own communities, survey shows" 27 October 2021 • ABC National Radio: "Concerns for people with disabilities and lowered immunity as lockdown lifts"' (11 Oct 2021) • The Gaurdian: "Injured woman says she drained super to survive while waiting years for disability support pension" (6 Sept 2021) • SBS News: "Disability Support Pension applicants are being forced into poverty, inquiry hears"' (6 Sept 2021) • Star Oberver: "UK home office tells gay Afghan that he could be sent back to Afghanistan" (27 Aug 2021) • QNews: "Gay Afghanistan man’s boyfriend murdered and mutilated by Taliban" (26 Aug 2021) • Disability Support Guide: "All children with disability as young as 12 can now receive a COVID-19 vaccine" (26 Aug 2021) • Pink Advocate: "''They will kill me without even thinking’: Gay Afghans living in fear" (23 Aug 2021) • Q News: "Charities call on Australia to take LGBTIQ Afghan refugees" (23 Aug 2021) • Disability Support Guide: "Disability sector delivers ultimatum to Government and their vaccination program" (19 Aug 2021) • SBS News: 'Wise to be thinking now': Calls for Australia to consider the burden of long COVID (30 July 2021) • SBS News: "Disability advocates still worried despite proposed changes to NDIS independent assessments" (7 July 2021) • ABC National Radio: "Dozens more COVID cases in Sydney" (5 July 2021) • The Australian: "NDIS checks ‘a danger to disabled' " (26 April 2021) • The Gaurdian: "Australians with a disability ‘forgotten’ in coronavirus vaccine rollout, advocates say" (22 April 2021) • The ABC: "Lily wishes able-bodied people knew the truth about how she thinks of her wheelchair" (2 April 2021) • Pedestrian TV's #27Pedestrians Docuseries • Proposed changes to the NDIS (PIAC) • Terms of engagement for NDIS Minister Reynolds from the disability community • #WeNeedMoreTime: Extend the Disability Royal Commission • #MakeItSafeToSpeak - Disability Royal Commission • Minimum accessibility standards introduced into the National Construction Code • Disability sector statement on the Australian Government’s planned reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) • Social Security Rights Review • Launch of ACON's Queer Ability Toolkit • AGMC Statement on Afghanistan • Tik Tok: The balkâ of pre-precolonial Philippines