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Diane Nazaroff
UNSW News Room
Wednesday 20th March, 2019

The National Disability Strategy (NDS) has important goals but it isn’t addressing the issue of violence and it is being overshadowed by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a report…

Ben Knight
UNSW
Friday 8th March, 2019

Home modifications can help delay institutional care, creating benefits for the individual, the taxpayer and the healthcare system. A UNSW Built Environment professor is determined to improve the accessibility of…

Alison Branley
ABC News
Thursday 14th March, 2019

The royal commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with a disability marks the seventh such inquiry in six years.  For Sandy Guy this announcement has been a…

Fran Connelley
pro Bono News
Tuesday 5th March, 2019
In times of massive change it is an organisation’s culture that holds it together or splits it apart. It is culture, not pricing, that should determine the working environment: whether
Miki Perkins
The Age
Thursday 7th March, 2019
A severe shortage in housing suitable for Victorians with “complex needs” - people who need considerable social and health support - means hundreds of the state’s most vulnerable people, including
Sophie Meixner and Tara Cassidy
ABC Tropical North
Sunday 3rd March, 2019

The parents of a quadriplegic man say they were left “distraught”, “broken”, and “completely traumatised” by the process of obtaining funding through the NDIS, which they say unnecessarily extended their…

Margaret Nixon
The Conversation
Friday 22nd February, 2019
Up to 90% of women with disability have been sexually assaulted. People with disability are three times as likely to die prematurely than the general population from causes that could
Caroline Riches
Community Care Review
Wednesday 27th February, 2019

Disability service providers are failing to connect with people from non-English speaking backgrounds because many are unsure of the support available or don’t know how to access it.

Amy Greenbank
ABC
Wednesday 27th February, 2019

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has written to the states and territories asking for their support in establishing a joint inquiry into abuse in the disabled sector.

Bevan Shields
Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday 26th February, 2019

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will order a royal commission into horrific allegations of abuse against people with disability in what will be the sixth judicial probe in Australia in as…

Felicity Ogilvie
ABC Radio AM
Tuesday 26th February, 2019
The NDIS has an arrangement with Vision Australia to provide people who have a visual disability with communication in an accessible form such as braille, audio recordings and electronic letters
Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Friday 22nd February, 2019
Disability advocates are deeply concerned by an almost 80 per cent increase in Disability Support Pension appeals, warning that vulnerable people are being incorrectly forced onto lower benefit payments like Newstart.