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An annual Productivity Commission report, which examined government services across the disability, aged care, child protection and youth justice sectors, has revealed workforce and social participation rates have fallen among
According to Suzanne Colbert, chief executive of the Australian Network on Disability, there is no reason why a sales role where deep product knowledge is required, whether that be selling
West Australian disability advocates and families want women in government care to be given the right to choose female carers to assist with showering and other intimate duties to minimise…
In Australia, about 70 per cent of children and young people with a disability aged between birth and 14 are able to make friends outside of their family and paid…
Target and Kmart feature young stars — some wearing hearing aids and using walk frames — in their January catalogues, modelling a range of products including new back-to-school items.
Australia’s rates of employing people with a disability are among the lowest in the developed world. They’ve been stagnant for 20 years, and in some areas, are getting worse. Advocates…
The government announced in the December mid-year economic review that $3.7 billion from the Education Investment Fund, used to fund university infrastructure, would be credited into the NDIS. However it…
The disability sector has backed calls for the Centrelink debt recovery “fiasco” to be suspended immediately amid concerns about the impact it is having on people with disability.
The not-for-profit sector is calling for urgent action amid concerns people living with a mental illness could “fall through the gaps” as the National Disability Insurance Scheme absorbs some mental…
Australia’s consumer protection agencies have produced a range of educational materials to help you understand your consumer rights and to help you use these rights if something you pay for…
The inaugural chair of the agency running the National Disability Insurance Scheme has emphasised the importance of his board’s independence and experience in the disability sector, as he prepares to…
The parents of a Melbourne teenager with intellectual disabilities are seeking legal advice after he was commanded to perform a sexual act by another student on a school mini-bus which…
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