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Lexi Metherell
ABC News
Tuesday 20th November, 2018
The disability sector is suffering "a silent crisis" under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), some providers have told a study released today.
Maggie Coggan
Pro Bono News
Monday 19th November, 2018
The federal government has unveiled a joint employment taskforce to tackle high rates of disability unemployment, but service providers have raised concerns about whether enough is being done to include
Kate Finch
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 14th November, 2018
People with disability from Australia and Indonesia met this week to discuss a new and evolving area of research that puts people with disability in the driver’s seat and in
Ben Cheshire
ABC TV
Monday 12th November, 2018
Wednesday 12th December, 2018
Airs Monday November 12 on ABCTV and iview When former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer and his wife Judy learned that their young son was autistic, they were told he would
Jonathan Foye
Insights Magazine
Friday 9th November, 2018
The Angus Project, an upcoming ABC comedy pilot that drops in December, presents disability on screen in new ways.
Senator Jordan Steele-John
Junkee
Thursday 1st November, 2018
What’s most alarming to me — and it’s not a new trend either — is that politics has stooped so low that it’s now commonplace for disadvantaged people and communities
Maggie Coggan
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 7th November, 2018
Building a lego robot is not a usual prerequisite for a career in IT. But for Peter Middleton, a job interview specifically designed to showcase the unique skills and abilities
Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Friday 2nd November, 2018
The federal government’s outsourced jobseeker program is a “special kind of hell” for welfare recipients with mental health issues, a Senate inquiry has heard.
Peter Sun San Wong
The Conversation
Tuesday 30th October, 2018
Just 16% of adults with autism are in full-time paid employment, and this situation is not improving. The Economist has described this as “a tragic toll, as millions of people
Luke Michael
Pro Bono
Friday 26th October, 2018
The federal government is ditching controversial plans to review the eligibility of 90,000 people on the Disability Support Pension after only a tiny fraction of recipients were found not to
Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Monday 29th October, 2018
Disability groups are demanding assurances that National Disability Insurance Scheme funding is secure and fully covered into the future, after it emerged $3.9 billion originally promised to the scheme will
Simon Stafrace
The Age
Saturday 27th October, 2018
Strictly speaking, the mental health system isn't broken – it was just built this way and is producing the results it was designed for.