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‘Sometimes train drivers forget you’: How to make Melbourne more accessible for people with disabilities

Jewel Topsfield
The Age
Friday 27th September, 2019
But in Melbourne every day is a logistical challenge. Ms Christie and her friends with disabilities joke they should be detectives because they are so adept at scoping out joints
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Sex work restrictions are punishing people with disabilities, advocates say

Casey Briggs
ABC Online
Thursday 26th September, 2019
A South Australian living with a disability says accessing the services of a sex worker is a lifeline to intimacy. It comes as a bill to decriminalise sex work is
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Dylan Alcott ‘devastated’ at multi-billion-dollar NDIS underspend

ABC News
Thursday 19th September, 2019
"I see the heartbroken families of people who try and try to get funding but can't, robbing them to be independent, contributing members of society. Fix it."
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Parliament House security accused of ‘dehumanising’ search of disability advocate Christina Ryan

Rosie King
ABC Online
Tuesday 24th September, 2019
Ms Ryan uses a power wheelchair, made of metal and powered by truck batteries, so she always expects that getting through the security checkpoints at the front door will be
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Why agility is the key for NDIS’ shifting goal posts

Ben Fock
Pro Bono News
Tuesday 17th September, 2019
It is this process of now receiving funding for individuals under their specific plans that is not only forcing change on how NFPs deliver their service but is also creating
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National Disability Insurance Agency hamstrung by staffing cap: ‘I shake every time I go to make a call’

Katie Burgess
Canberra Times
Thursday 12th September, 2019
Blowouts in processing times under the National Disability Insurance Scheme are being driven by an arbitrary cap on the number of staff the agency can employ, MPs have been told.
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Royal Commission targets NDIS providers

Judy Skatssoon
Australian Ageing Agenda
Tuesday 17th September, 2019
A “substantial number” of the largest NDIS providers are being ordered to provide information relating to complaints, investigations and reported incidents of violence and abuse.
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The NDIS has ‘saved’ the budget: how good is trampling the poor and powerless?

First Dog on the Moon
The Guardian
Tuesday 24th September, 2019

Would it hurt to stay in debt and spend the money on services that society needs? Yes, because that is SOCIALISM!

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Disabled Australians spend extra on basic living costs every year

Xinhua
Tuesday 17th September, 2019
People with disabilities who are considered capable of working receive Newstart, the welfare allowance for the unemployed, rather than the disability support pension which needs an extra 343 AUD (235
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Disability pension pushing Indigenous Australians into poverty

Maggie Coggan
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 18th September, 2019
Two in five Indigenous households relying on the Disability Support Pension ran out of money for basic items such as food and fuel in the last year, new research shows,
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As a disabled woman, my abortion wasn’t questioned—but my pregnancy was

Nicole Lee
Quartz
Wednesday 18th September, 2019
Women’s reproductive rights are a tough enough topic for any female-identifying person in the 21st century. For the disability community though, they raise a whole different set of issues.
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Brisbane barrister reveals shocking levels of abuse at disability royal commission September 18, 2019

Mark Bowling
Wednesday 18th September, 2019
BRISBANE barrister Rebecca Treston QC has delivered a shocking snapshot of abuse, neglect and disadvantage suffered by disabled people living in Australia today. “Every 10 minutes someone with profound or
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