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A Current Affair
Tuesday 22nd April, 2025

Adam Kupics has had a prosthetic leg for more than a decade. He says since being on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), funding changed his life for the better….

CYDA
Tuesday 22nd April, 2025

The right to a fully inclusive education system is still out of reach for too many children and young people with disability in Australia. Just last year, three out of…

ABC News
Tuesday 22nd April, 2025

Unlike the last election, issues around disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) have barely rated a mention on the campaign trail. People with disability feel they’re living in…

DSC
Thursday 10th April, 2025

Sara Gingold from DSC explores what’s happening with needs assessments, including a look at the NDIA’s tender for needs assessment tools.

Children and Young People with Disability Australia
Thursday 10th April, 2025

Exclusion and bullying of students with disability is on the rise in Australia, with three in four impacted in 2024, according to a new survey. Children and Young People with…

ABC News
Monday 7th April, 2025

On the western outskirts of Melbourne, where the new estates meet open paddocks, it was clear something wasn’t right at number 20, Eshal Crescent. There was a skip out the…

ABC News
Monday 7th April, 2025

When Stacey Donchi first discovered her now fiance Steve Lyons on a dating app, it was the height of six feet on his profile that attracted her to him —…

ABC News
Friday 4th April, 2025

Large sums of taxpayer money meant for some of the most vulnerable Australians have been flowing through companies linked to a man named Khawaja Moeen Haroon. While his network has…

ABC News
Monday 31st March, 2025

For ABC Heywire winner Jezabella, being unique has come with its challenges.  When she was a baby, she was diagnosed with a medical condition so rare, only eight other Australians…

DANA
Friday 28th March, 2025

The final Federal Budget before the election in May was handed down last night. We, along with other Disability Representative Organisations, have called it out: “People with disability are invisible…

SBS
Friday 28th March, 2025

Disability advocates and experts say cultural stigma and migration laws leave migrants living with disability further excluded and marginalised.

DSC
Friday 28th March, 2025

Last night, the Federal government handed down the 2025-26 Budget. According to the media, it was the budget that was never meant to happen, as the Prime Minister’s plans to…