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How the NDIS is using the market to create housing for people with disability

Di Winkler Adjunct Associate Professor, La Trobe University
The Conversation
Friday 8th September, 2017
Housing for people with disability is being transformed from grants-based funding to a market-based system where people with disabilities control their own funding. This market has the potential to grow
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Market failure and the National Disability Insurance Scheme 

Rebecca Vassarotti
Riot ACT
Thursday 7th September, 2017
The aims of the NDIS are laudable and rightly ambitious, aiming to support Australians with a significant and permanent disability achieve a better life through access to the supports they
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Woman with intellectual disabilities faces deportation after mother’s visa rejection

 Guy Stayner
ABC News online
Thursday 7th September, 2017
A 50-year-old woman with severe intellectual disabilities faces possible deportation next month and the prospect of spending the rest of her life in an Indian institution, after her mother's visa
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The art of dependency

Micheline Lee
The Monthly
Monday 4th September, 2017
The NDIS promised choice and control but what is it really delivering? In this essay, Micheline Lee shares her experience of living with disability her whole life and how accessing
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Desensitisation

Gary Kerridge
The Rebuttal
Wednesday 6th September, 2017

Australia’s Disability Laws is set up based on the person with disability having to make a complaint. It is up to the person with disability to challenge discrimination when it

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Lawyer championed rights of the disabled

Heather Down
Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday 5th September, 2017

Despite her own deafness, Elena Down became a leading legal expert in developing agreements safeguarding the rights of disabled people.

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NDIS complaints soar 700pc as disability organisations criticise planning processes

Dan Conifer
ABC News
Saturday 26th August, 2017
Complaints about the National Disability Insurance Scheme have soared by about 700 per cent in the past year. Reports to the Commonwealth Ombudsman jumped from 62 in 2015-16 to 429
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NDIS in crisis, say disability groups as complaints soar

Christopher Knaus
The Guardian
Saturday 26th August, 2017

Disability groups say the increasing number of complaints about the national disability insurance scheme reflects a “planning process in crisis”. The number of complaints about the NDIS made to the…

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Disability rights activists have changed the face of your city

ABC Radio Breakfast Hobart
Monday 21st August, 2017
new film Defiant Lives directed by Sarah Barton charts the history of disability rights activism around the world. The film reveals just how much in our world has changed due
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Elderly parents keep on fighting, this time over plans for state-run care homes 

 Miki Perkins
The Age
Monday 21st August, 2017
Robin and Bernard Shanahan are exhausted. They've been lobbying on behalf of their two children with disabilities for decades. Now in their seventies, they'd like to enjoy a well-earned retirement.
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NDIA loses appeal in test case for transport funding

Wendy Williams
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 23rd August, 2017
An attempt by the National Disability Insurance Agency to appeal a ruling that the agency must fully fund supports accepted as “reasonable and necessary” under the National Disability Insurance Scheme,
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Gap in palliative care for Australians with a disability

Zoe Ferguson
ABC Radio National Breakfast
Wednesday 23rd August, 2017
Around one in five Australians live with a disability — and like the rest of the ageing population, they'll require end of life care when they become ill. But close
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