Australia is failing more than 130,000 people with significant psychosocial disability – despite spending billions every year on the NDIS. Last year the NDIS provided nearly $6 billion to support…
This study explores how attitudes held by the general population, different cultural groups and people within systems and services affect people with disability from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds….
Living with vision impairment throws up many challenges. Being Deaf as well requires you to go to even greater lengths just to fit in with the modern world. This is…
Administrative review tribunal no longer authorised to alter a person’s plan or reinstate funding, agency confirms. Participants in the national disability insurance scheme will in most cases no longer be…
It’s hard to overstate the potential dangers of replacing discretion with algorithms in a system as consequential as the national disability insurance scheme. Never again. That was the resounding message…
Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’. Advocates have criticised sweeping changes to the way National Disability
Basic Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) housing refers to ‘Existing’ and ‘Legacy’ building types enrolled in the SDA program but constructed prior to the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme…
The guidance provides practical tools to support government bodies and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to embed shared decision-making principles into practice. Drawing on real-world case studies and examples…
The Guardian’s recent reporting on proposals to introduce computer-generated NDIS plans appears to signal a substantial change in the way participant budgets may be determined. Disability Representative Organisations (DROs) emphasise…
DISABILITY advocates are warning that the Federal Government’s upcoming social media ban for teenagers may unintentionally deepen isolation for young Australians with disability, cutting them off from crucial avenues of…
Discrimination is a daily reality for people with disability. It accounts for almost half of complaints to the Australian Human Rights Commission and touches every part of life: employment, education,…
Every year, International Day of People with Disability lands with a small thud on the LGBTQIA+ calendar — a day we absolutely should be shouting about, but often don’t. We
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