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First Nations People with disability are one of the most marginalised, disadvantaged and disengaged groups in Australia. They do not participate in sport at the same levels as other groups…

These days you’ll find Greg Smith taking Australia’s wheelchair rugby team through their strength and conditioning routines and mentoring the players about what it takes to succeed. It’s hard to…

Of Australia’s 135 Paralympic swimming gold medals, only one came at the 1972 Games in Heidelberg – and the athlete who won it was driven by a technical injustice. Eric…

Policy updated: 28 February 2024 The protection of personal information is important to Paralympics Australia Limited (PA). PA is committed to respecting the right to privacy and the protection of…

When Paralympics Australia launched the Think Big Gold Medal Challenge with our Major Partner, Optus, in 2017, we could never have anticipated the impact it would have when the Australian…

The image suggests an almighty feat. Yet, approaching three decades since he lifted close to triple his bodyweight at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics, Ray Epstein concedes it’s a memory tinged…

The Tokyo 2020 aspirations of seven Paralympic sports have been given a timely and important boost today by the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). Paralympics Australia (PA) has commended today’s…

Daphne Hilton had been “left to die”. A horse-riding accident in 1951 had left the teenager a paraplegic and, as was the case in those days, her future seemed bleak.…

Basketball Australia has announced the Australian Rollers squad for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, in 2021. The Paralympics, originally scheduled to take place late August 2020, will now run from…