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National Disability Insurance Agency spends millions on external legal costs

Rachel Clun
SMH
Thursday 17th February, 2022
The agency running the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) spent nearly $22 million on external legal fees in the last financial year as the number of tribunal complaints about the
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Who’s who and what do they do? Recovering from disasters and emergencies

VCOSS
Thursday 10th February, 2022

This user-friendly guide identifies key disaster recovery stakeholders and outlines their roles and responsibilities. There are also useful tools, links and resources to help organisations navigate their recovery journey by…

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The NDIS and determining value for money

Hillary Harper
RN Life Matters
Thursday 17th February, 2022
Australians with autism, intellectual and psychosocial disabilities have spoken out about having their NDIS funding reduced, after receiving letters determining the payments weren't "value for money". NDIS Minister Linda Reynolds
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Australia is behind on accessibility at music festivals and gigs and fans with a disability are missing out

Emma Myers
ABC News
Sunday 13th February, 2022
Rock legend Jimmy Barnes says the issue of inaccessibility doesn't just affect disabled fans, but artists living with disability as well. He says he's lucky to have his daughter Elly-May,
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Monash flips on ‘ableist’ learning model

Herald Sun
Saturday 12th February, 2022
Monash flips on ‘ableist’ learning model Monash University’s law faculty has sensationally scrapped its “ableist” ban on recorded lectures following fierce backlash from students.
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Inclusive education: It’s time to flip the thinking on educating young people with disabilities

Nicole Rinehart, Ana Mantilla, Nicole Papadopoulos, Katherine Bussey, Bethany Devenish and Hannah Machin
Lens Monash University
Friday 11th February, 2022
Education is not only a fundamental human right, it also acts to amplify other rights – this is called a multiplier effect. Inclusive education must go beyond simply including children
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Review of NDIA actuarial forecast model and drivers of Scheme costs

Department of Social Services (DSS)
Friday 11th February, 2022
At their August 2021 meeting, Disability Ministers directed work be undertaken to understand cost drivers and underpinning assumptions in the Scheme Actuary’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Annual Financial Sustainability
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Hundreds of younger people with disability still living in nursing homes as deadlines approach

Disability Support Gide
Thursday 10th February, 2022
A newly released report shows the Government is still short of its target to have no one younger than 45 living in nursing homes, and no one younger than 65
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Families in crisis after NDIS funding cuts to participants with autism and intellectual disabilities

Bridget Rollason
ABC News
Friday 11th February, 2022
When Karen McKenzie received an unexpected letter from the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) in August, she had to read it three times before it sank in. Her son Jarrod,
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Using rapid antigen tests can be near impossible for the vision impaired | ABC News

Nas Campanella
ABC News
Thursday 27th January, 2022
For many, getting access to a rapid antigen test has been a major challenge. But for those who are vision impaired, using at-home tests is near impossible.
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Targeted approach needed to end ‘alarmingly high’ rates of violence against women with disability

Maggie Coggan
PBA
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
“As well as experiencing violence from family and our partners in our private home, we’re in disability group homes or in mental health inpatient wards. We’ve got disability support workers
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Women with disabilities twice as likely to experience physical and sexual violence

Jessie Tu
Women's Agenda
Wednesday 9th February, 2022
“Violence against women and girls with disabilities is not perpetrated by a ‘few bad apples,’ it looks like street harassment, controlling behaviours by paid and unpaid carers, doctors and policy-makers
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