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Disability housing: what does good look like?

Social Ventures Victoria
Wednesday 31st March, 2021
Access to appropriate and affordable housing is a key driver to enable people with disability to be full and equal participants in society. Yet while the stock of specialist disability
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Why controversial and ‘widely rejected’ changes to the NDIS have Australia’s disability community worried

Jodie Stephens
SBS
Sunday 11th April, 2021
A spokesman for Senator Reynolds said this week she would soon be having comprehensive briefings with her state and territory counterparts, the disability sector and NDIS participants.
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Flawed, unethical and dangerous’: new NDIS assessments risk traumatising the vulnerable

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Saturday 10th April, 2021
“I think it is a rotten idea,” Lambert, 46, says. “The NDIA should bugger off and leave people with disability with enough money to be able to live an ordinary
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People with cognitive disability face loss of justice system support

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 7th April, 2021
The letter – whose signatories include people across the social sector, academia and the legal space – notes that the overrepresentation and disadvantage experienced by people with cognitive disability in
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Disability advocates urge Linda Reynolds to scrap NDIS independent assessments

SBS News
Wednesday 7th April, 2021
More than 20 organisations have jointly called on the new NDIS Minister to abandon the introduction of the contentious independent assessments.
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Family Voices

Early Childhood Intervention Australia (ECIA)
Friday 9th April, 2021
This podcast series features casual conversations with families of children with disability and/or developmental delay and the professionals they work alongside. The aim is to support and build families’ knowledge,
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Thanks to the NDIS, blindness hasn’t stopped me from enjoying the Australian bush

Ria Andriani
The Guardian
Friday 9th April, 2021
During the pandemic, when the world shrank, many of us walked in the bush. For someone who can’t see, it isn’t necessarily something that I can do independently. But over
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Disability sector demands answers from Federal Government over “tampered” NDIS review

Cathy Van Extel
RN Breakfast
Wednesday 7th April, 2021
The disability sector is demanding answers from the Federal Government over the independence of a report used to justify controversial reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Documents released
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Critical mass

Christina Ryan
Disability Leadership Institute blog
Wednesday 24th March, 2021
Requesting workplace adjustments, flexible working arrangements, or modified equipment in the workplace is a tough gig. It is even more difficult for those who are the only disabled person on
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Pressure grows on Morrison government to halt new NDIS assessment plan

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Friday 2nd April, 2021
The strongest rebuke has come from the Victorian government, whose disability minister, Luke Donnellan, said on Thursday the so-called “robo-planning” proposal “attacks the very principles on which the NDIS was
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Secret documents show department inserted chapter into NDIS review

Rob Harris
SMH
Tuesday 6th April, 2021

Emails and draft copies of the 2019 report, written by former senior public servant David Tune, show National Disability Insurance Agency officials inserted an entire chapter into the review of…

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‘I’m proud of her’: The father behind a special cafe in Balaclava

Carolyn Webb
The Age
Thursday 1st April, 2021
Like many parents, Jonathan Wenig was concerned about his daughter’s career path after she left school last year. Tali, 20, who has autism, faced more than the usual challenges in
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