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Royal commission told of ‘heartbreaking’ abuse faced by women with disability

Nas Campanella
ABC News
Thursday 14th October, 2021
Alarming statistics about the violence and abuse experienced by women and girls with disability have been laid bare for a Commonwealth inquiry, including increased reports of strangulation during the pandemic.
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You say Risk, I say Freedom

Todd Winther
Monday 11th October, 2021
I have had the opportunity to access a wide variety of services during my life. The quality that differentiates the best from the rest is the provider’s ability to empower
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Royal Commission explores Quality and Safeguards

Jessica Quilty
Disability Services Consulting (DSC)
Monday 11th October, 2021
Safeguards and quality services are key areas of inquiry for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation (Royal Commission). Whilst the full report is not due to be
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Immoral and inexcusable’: how Australians in disability homes fell from the front of the vaccine queue

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Monday 4th October, 2021

“We started to get calls saying, ‘When are these guys showing up’?” says Moody, who was until June the chief executive of a peak body for national disability insurance scheme…

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Increased COVID support for NDIS workers in Victoria

AAP
Mirage News
Monday 4th October, 2021
Eligible NDIS providers in Victoria will be able to claim a one-off payment from the NDIA to cover costs for support workers to receive their COVID-19 vaccination.
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NDIS workers urged to share vaccine status

SBS News
Saturday 2nd October, 2021
More and more NDIS participants are requesting support workers who are COVID-vaccinated, says company spokeswoman Tiare Leahy.
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Vaccination Required To Protect Workers And Victoria

Premiere of Victoria
Media release
Friday 1st October, 2021
On the advice of our public health team, all workers – in Melbourne and regional Victoria – on the Authorised Worker list will require their first COVID-19 vaccine dose by
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Disability Royal Commission labels vaccine rollout as “seriously deficient”

Aaron Bloch
National Indigenous Times
Friday 1st October, 2021
“One of our big concerns is that the Vaccine rollout has been using NDIS participants to identify vaccination rates of disabled people. However, there remain very low rates of participation
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NDIA and Pharmacy Guild work together to boost NDIS vaccination rates

Mirage News
Thursday 30th September, 2021
Minister for the NDIS Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC said it was another important step in protecting the disability community from the virus – and in increasing the number
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Injured woman says she drained super to survive while waiting years for disability support pension

Luke Henriques-Gomes
the Guardian
Monday 6th September, 2021
Senate inquiry told Australia’s disability payment rules need to be ‘rewritten’ as people struggle for months before receiving support
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Thinking thin markets

Rob Woolley
Disability Services Consulting (DSC)
Wednesday 22nd September, 2021
Metro areas, regional areas, remote areas, very remote areas – nowhere is safe. And no, we are not talking about the Delta strain, but thin markets for NDIS services. The
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How Denise Morgan escaped Albert Park’s house of horrors

Jewel Topsfield and Royce Millar
The Age
Monday 27th September, 2021
She lived in a tiny room with no window, inside a home filled with bed bugs and stained mattresses, until a COVID cluster helped expose conditions in Hambleton House.
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