Ms Smith's death sparked numerous investigations and reviews, including by police, the state government and the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission. The NDIS Commission's independent investigation led to 10 recommendations,
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is extending the NDIS Fraud Taskforce to crack down on dodgy providers and ensure participants get the supports they need. Minister for the NDIS,
A taskforce established to crack down down on fraud in the $22 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme will be extended indefinitely after it uncovered millions of dollars of alleged rorts
“We grow up learning that ‘disabled’ is a bad thing. It’s something you don’t want to be, that to call yourself that is somehow defeatist, that you should be trying
They drew attention to how a “lack of transparency around challenges facing the Scheme contrasted with the language often used by the NDIA on ‘co-design’ and ‘partnership’” and have called
“The NDIA should be a model employee for people with disability but many staff continue to experience added pressures, particularly in relation to assistive technology, and the NDIA refuses to
Mrs Bonanno is among an estimated 9 per cent of Australian women of childbearing age who have a disability, but little is known about their health during pregnancy, birth and
When Nathan Basha was born, his parents were given three options: to "institutionalise" him, adopt him out or take him home. The decision they made was life changing. "My parents
In Victoria, where the NDIS was rolled out from 2016, anyone born after 1952 was eligible for the scheme, whereas someone with the same disability born before 1952 was not.
What exploded was not a fight about ‘reform’. You see, the disability community desperately wants reform: after all, it was from the community that the NDIS was created. But reform
Disability advocates are alarmed at the idea Australia needs to "learn to live with COVID", saying that could mean a life of isolation and even death for many people with
The study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Oxford University and Public Health England found risks were particularly high for those with profound learning disabilities linked to
