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Nine News
Tuesday 12th September, 2017

Victorian police and an independent commissioner will work more closely to investigate the abuse of disabled people after rape allegations were not reported to police.

Alison M Marchbank
The Conversation
Wednesday 20th September, 2017

The rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in selected sites in 2016 signified a shift in cultural views about disability. Historical views were based on a medical model…

Daniella Miletic
The Age
Tuesday 19th September, 2017

Getting a ticket for a preliminary final can be exhausting, especially when tickets to the public are exhausted. But spare a thought for footy fans like Sam Jackson, a Tigers…

Suresh Rajan
The Stringer
Sunday 10th September, 2017

The sheer hypocrisy of our government sometimes knows no bounds. On the one hand Australia lauds its signing of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. On

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
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
 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
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
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

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.

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
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…