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Self Advocacy Toolkit for Older Australians

Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN)
Thursday 1st December, 2022
The toolkit equips you with the skills, information and resources you need to speak up for better aged care. Self-advocacy or speaking up means having the right information to get
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Disability advocates forced to turn people away as appeals to NDIS cuts grow

Rhett Burnie
ABC Radio PM
Wednesday 6th April, 2022
For months now we've been hearing of stories of people on the NDIS who've had their support funding cut. That's sent thousands to the appeals tribunal - where people with
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Disability sector demands inclusive disaster preparedness

Jonathan Alley
PBA
Wednesday 6th April, 2022
A coalition of 40 disability rights and advocacy organisations has endorsed an open letter to politicians running in the 2022 election, that demands a new approach to ensuring better safety
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Morrison Government improving home and living supports for NDIS participants including to SIL

Life
National Tribune
Wednesday 6th April, 2022
“These changes will reduce red tape, and remove a number of practical and administrative concerns participants and providers have raised, to ensure it’s easier for participants to access home and
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Parliament passes important NDIS legislation to improve participant experience

Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC
media release
Friday 1st April, 2022
The Australian Government has today delivered the most significant improvements to participant experience since the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was established in 2013. Minister for the National Disability Insurance
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$100 million to uphold the rights of people with disability

Department of Social Services Ministers
media release
Thursday 7th April, 2022
The Morrison Government will invest $100 million over three years to ensure people with disability continue to have access to advocacy and legal support. From 1 July 2022, more than
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NDIA boss apologises after staff used social media posts to challenge woman’s eligibility

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Saturday 2nd April, 2022
The rheumatologist called by the NDIA had drawn upon the “intelligence report” to find the woman did not experience “significant functional impairment” from her chronic pain, the tribunal said.
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Clients waiting years for crucial equipment as providers battle ‘bureaucratic’ NDIS system

Eleanor Beidatsch
ABC News
Saturday 2nd April, 2022
There have even been cases where clients have died waiting for assistive technology (AT), as service providers struggle to navigate the "complex" and "bureaucratic" National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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The devaluation of Disabled lives

Georgia Cranko
The Saturday Paper
Saturday 2nd April, 2022

Ann Marie Smith died in abject circumstances, at the hands of her carer in the middle-class Adelaide suburb of Kingston Park. Her killing raises questions about the way our society…

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Despite its Oscar win, CODA is still a film that depicts deafness as a burden

Billie Anderson
The Conversation
Friday 1st April, 2022
While film critics and audiences alike have shouted their praise for this year’s best picture win, CODA, they seem to be ignoring the voices of the Deaf community.
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NDIA scrutinised woman’s social media posts to challenge her eligibility, tribunal decision reveals

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Friday 1st April, 2022
National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) staff reviewed the social media accounts of a woman applying for the scheme and sent a report to a doctor engaged to provide an expert
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NDIA wanted Aboriginal man, 64, who relied on ‘homemade walking stick’ rejected from scheme

Luke henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Wednesday 30th March, 2022
The argument put forward by the agency was rejected as “extraordinary” by administrative appeals tribunal (AAT) member Simon Webb in a judgment published last week. Webb said the man was
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