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South Australia faces disability accommodation crisis

Disability Support Guide
Sunday 8th May, 2022

Emma Hocking, Chief Executive Officer of SDA Smart Homes says that the proposed crackdown will be welcomed, but funding cuts would be a disaster given the current rental and housing…

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Joining NDIS in early days paved Ben’s pathway to paid employment

NDIS
Sunday 8th May, 2022

Winnie and Gary Andrews jumped at the chance to have their son Ben join the NDIS during early trials in the Hunter region of New South Wales in 2014. It…

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Gippsland family builds accessible house to keep son living with disability out of aged care

ABC News
Monday 8th May, 2023

An eastern Victorian family has built an accessible home and hopes to be reimbursed by the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

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NDIS participants say their funding — and taxpayer money — is being tied up in unnecessary bureaucracy

Nas Campanella, Evan Young and Mary Lloyd
ABC
Friday 5th May, 2023
But replacing her worn-out cushion was far from a simple process. "I was accepted onto the scheme for my cerebral palsy. The NDIA knows I have cerebral palsy. They know
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The government says NDIS supports should be ‘evidence-based’ – but can they be?

Kobie Boshoff
The Conversation
Thursday 4th May, 2023
The term “evidence-based practice” comes from the medical field, mostly from research trials with a clear cause-and-effect relationship. But this narrow idea of what evidence is can be problematic when
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NDIS cost scrutiny is intensifying again – the past shows this can harm health and wellbeing for people with disability

Samia Badji, Anne Kavanagh and Dennis Petrie
The Conversation
Monday 1st May, 2023
Those in the disability field have been expressing a sense of whiplash since Friday. Many had felt buoyed by reassurances from Bill Shorten, minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
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Disability advocates in shock over Labor announcement of NDIS ‘growth target’

Stephanie Dalzell and Nas Campanella
ABC
Friday 28th April, 2023
Disability advocates have reacted furiously to the government's move to rein in spending on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), after it unveiled a plan that could save the budget
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Is Disability Part Of Your Identity? Ask Yourself These Questions

Andrew Pulrang
Forbes
Wednesday 26th April, 2023
Figuring out how you see and present yourself and your disability can be as important as knowing how to adapt to it, get around barriers, and deal with prejudice and
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Disabled Australian women face forced sterilisation, abortion and contraception, health groups say

Tory Shepherd
Guardian Australia
Thursday 27th April, 2023
Victorian organisation Women’s Health in the South East said forced sterilisation was often performed to prevent pregnancy, that it breached “every international human rights treaty to which Australia is a
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Gov to boost IT systems for detecting NDIS fraud

ITnews
Thursday 27th April, 2023
The government is set to allocate $48.3 million in next month’s federal budget for anti-fraud measures around the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), including new IT systems.
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PM Anthony Albanese announces $720m funding in upcoming budget for NDIA Posted

ABC
Friday 28th April, 2023
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Urgent calls to simplify access and raise youth rate of DSP

David McManus
Disability Support Guide
Saturday 22nd April, 2023
“With access to inclusive education still very limited, discrimination in hiring practices, and disability employment services that often fail to meet individual needs, young people are disadvantaged on many fronts
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