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Who will be the Forum members?

2 people and the number 20.

The Forum will have up to 20 members.

A calendar that says '2 years'.

Members will be part of the Forum for up to 2 years.

A disability icon and a head showing the brain.

Forum members will include people with intellectual disability.

An open book, a tick, a speech bubble and a person pointing to themself.

An intellectual disability affects how you:

  • learn new things
  • solve problems
  • communicate
  • do things on your own.

Forum members will include:

The Aboriginal flag and Torres Strait Islander flag above a group of 3 people.

  • First Nations people with disability

A rural house in the middle of farm land.

  • people with disability who live far away from cities and towns

A group of people with disability from different backgrounds sitting and smiling together.

  • culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people with disability.

A large group of people from different cultural backgrounds.

CALD people come from different cultural backgrounds.

2 people dancing in traditional clothes.

They might:

  • have different beliefs and a way of life
  • speak a language other than English
  • have been born in another country.

Forum members will also include:

3 young people with disability racing in a park.

  • young people with disability

3 women with disability pointing to themselves.

  • women with disability

Two people smiling behind someone in a wheelchair, who is holding two rainbow flags.

  • LGBTIQA+ people with disability.

2 people smiling and holding hands. 1 of them is wearing a pride necklace.

The letters LGBTIQA stand for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer or questioning and asexual.

A person with their hand raised and the other hand pointing at themself under a plus.

The ‘+’ is for people who are part of the LGBTIQA+ community but don’t talk about themselves using a word from this list.