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NDIS: A Copernican challenge for the actuarial model

Marie Johnson
InnovationAus.com
Thursday 28th April, 2022
Fictions and omissions have distorted and weaponised commentary over the NDIS in this election period, and in fact since the scheme was established. Here we see the greatest fiction told:
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Australians across the country take action to defend the NDIS

Anna Christian
Disability Support Guide
Thursday 28th April, 2022
Ms Foreman has been involved with Every Australian Counts since the beginning and was one of the first people in Australia to receive an NDIS plan. She says one of
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Government agency accused of being ‘at war with those it should be supporting’ as appeals against NDIS cuts spike

Elizabeth Wright and Celina Edmonds
ABC News
Friday 29th April, 2022
Naomi Anderson, principal solicitor at Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service in Geelong, said calls to the practice about "significant and unexpected cuts" had ramped up over the last six to
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Disability minister should be disabled person

Jordon Steele-John
National Tribune
Friday 22nd April, 2022
We need more people in Parliament with lived experience of disability; who understand what the disability community needs because they’re literally a part of it. We need the disability minister
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The greatest blessing for disabled Australians would be one of us as the Disability Minister

Jordon Steele-John
Pedestrian TV
Friday 22nd April, 2022
As disabled people, we are too often overlooked, underestimated and dismissed by non-disabled people. Too often we’re met with a “good on you champ”, or there’s a unique type of
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Lawyers leave NDIS agency in droves as challenges to decisions double

Katina Curtis
SMH
Saturday 23rd April, 2022
Dozens of lawyers have quit the agency that runs the National Disability Insurance Scheme in recent months as the organisation comes under pressure for spending tens of millions of dollars
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Guide for understanding employment supports

National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)
Thursday 21st April, 2022

There are lots of different supports for people with disability who want to work. This guide can help you understand which supports you could use to help you pursue your…

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Why is supported decision making important?

Disability Support Guide
The decision could be about a financial, health, legal, lifestyle, work related or other matter and the support is important because it gives people with disability choice and control over
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My Story

Elizabeth Wright
ABC iview
Thursday 14th April, 2022
Thursday 30th June, 2022
Like any community, people with disability have diverse views. They deal with issues like accessibility, discrimination, and exclusion on a daily basis. Today we're going to bring you some of
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Explainer: New changes to the NDIS Act

Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Wednesday 20th April, 2022
On 30 March 2022 the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Measures) Bill 2021 (Bill) was passed by Parliament. The Bill will amend the National Disability
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‘Devastating impact’: Rise in proportion of disabled students expelled during pandemic

Adam Carey
The Age
Tuesday 12th April, 2022
Almost one in three students expelled from Victorian government schools during the first year of the pandemic had a disability, up from one in seven the previous year, in a
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Advocates say people with disability are increasingly ‘forgotten’ in emergency planning

Eden Gillespie
Guardian Australia
Monday 11th April, 2022

After being evicted from her short-term accommodation to make way for tourists, flood victim Margaret was left with nowhere else to go. “I would have been homeless, living out of…

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