The report outlines 14 recommendations, several of which focus on NDIS planning timelines and the participant's involvement in the drafting process. It also calls for extra training for NDIA staff,
The lawful but “barbaric” use of chemical and mechanical restraints on people with disability should spark public outrage, but instead their use is widely overlooked, a royal commission hearing has
Imagine you spent three or four years completing a degree and all your university friends were easily able to get a job. But you have been to many, many interviews
It’s important that as a nation we acknowledge the many lives that have been impacted by these terrible stories and do all we can to ensure they don’t happen again.
People with disability continue to be abused and live in fear in group homes over which they have little say. Advocate Kevin Stone says the overwhelming majority of group homes
When Gibb was ready to start school, his mum, Caitlin, took him on a school tour. She had picked this school because of its “small village feel”, thinking they would
The Victorian government has admitted it needs to overhaul the way prisoners with mental illnesses and cognitive impairments are treated, concerned they are over-represented in jail, suffer more in custody
Will and David's genuine friendship is rare, according to the Australia Talks National Survey, which revealed Australians who do not live with a disability rarely socialise with people who do.
Ms Warn, who has PTSD, told a parliamentary inquiry into the NDIS that she had been "bullied, berated, intimidated and lied to" as she dealt with bureaucrats in the scheme.
Despite being one of the first signatories of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, advocates say 30 years on, Australia is ignoring some of the biggest
The minister responsible for the NDIS has compared it to a plane taking off while still being built and admits the scheme is not always living up to expectations.
