When: Thursday 4 September 2025

Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm

Location: Face to face at Sebastopol (location to be confirmed)

Facilitated by: Kerry O'Hagan, Solicitor and Community Legal Education Coordinator at the Disability Discrimination Legal Service Inc.

What will this workshop be about?

This free community education session aims to support people living with disability and or their carers to learn about:

What areas of life are covered by disability discrimination law?
What is direct discrimination?
What is indirect discrimination?
What are reasonable adjustments?
How to make complaints about discrimination

Who is this workshop suited for?

This workshop is for people living with disability, carers, organisations, leaders, advocates, community groups and clubs working with people living with disability.

More about the Disability Discrimination Legal Service:

The Disability Discrimination Legal Service Inc (DDLS) is a statewide independent community legal centre that specialises in disability discrimination legal matters.
DDLS provides free legal services including information, referral, advice, casework assistance, community legal education, policy and law reform.
The DDLS aims to advance justice for Victorians with disabilities by promoting the objectives of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Equal Opportunity Act 2010.

Contact:

Please contact Meg Lawton, Community Inclusion Officer (Access and Inclusion) at meglawton@ballarat.vic.gov.au if you have any queries or questions about this session.