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Enhancing the ART Bill: Recommendations for a More Equitable Tribunal

DANA
Monday 5th February, 2024

The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) is set to replace the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), offering an opportunity to improve administrative review processes. However, several crucial aspects need refinement to ensure…

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Reasonable and Necessary: Challenging NDIS decisions: Expert advice to get the support you need

Dr George Taleporos
Reasonable and Necessary Podcast Serie
Thursday 10th August, 2023
Thursday 10th August, 2023

On this episode of Reasonable & Necessary, Dr George speaks with Mitchell Skipsey from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and NDIS participant and activist, Felice Vaiani, about NDIS appeals…

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NDIS Appeals: Tips for writing a Parents’ Statement of Lived Experience

Angela cox
Thursday 1st June, 2023
A popular topic that came up in the Q&A at the Advocating for your child in the NDIS appeals process event held on 15 May 2023 as part of Victorian
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Shorten: ‘Early resolution’ curbs number of appealed NDIS cases

Melissa Coade
The Mandarin
Monday 6th March, 2023
“These numbers are just the start in ensuring people with disability are able to get on with living their lives without having to go to court to argue over the
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Changes to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)

Department of the Attorney general
government of Australia
Monday 19th December, 2022
The Government has announced it will establish a new system of administrative review that is user-focused, efficient, accessible, independent and fair.   As part of these changes the Government will abolish
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Failing tribunal to be ditched in move that will continue to improve NDIS appeals

Anna Christian
Disability Support Guide
Tuesday 20th December, 2022
The Federal Government has announced it will abolish the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and replace it with a new body. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says the former Government “irreversibly damaged”
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Politicised’ Administrative Appeals Tribunal abolished, after attorney-general declares its reputation ruined

Jake Evans
ABC News
Friday 16th December, 2022
One of the most notoriously politicised bodies, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, will be abolished after the attorney-general declared its reputation had been irreversibly damaged.
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How Australia’s NDIS system tortured a family it was made to help

Kathy Stevens
WA Today
Tuesday 22nd November, 2022
The cost to restore not just Maddison’s funding to what was “reasonable and adequate” but restore funding for all those people with disabilities before the tribunal, is a pittance in
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Federal Court rejects NDIA appeal over $1.5m payment to Nardy House for residents’ care

Fatima Olumee
ABC News
Friday 18th November, 2022
The organisation has been footing the bill for registered nursing care since October 2019, when the NDIA notified three residents at Nardy House that their funding for registered nurse care
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What are the model litigant obligations of the National Disability Insurance Agency in NDIS AAT appeals?

Angela Cox
Special Voices
Monday 3rd October, 2022
The model litigant obligations (MLOs) of all Commonwealth agencies (including the NDIA) stem from the Legal Services Directions 2017, a legal instrument made by the Attorney-General under section 55ZF of
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NDIS AAT appeals conversation with NDIS Minister, NDIA and you

Every Australian Counts
Tuesday 20th September, 2022
Thousands of people with disability have been forced to fight against cuts and changes to their NDIS plans with external appeals at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).  Minister for the
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Thousands of outstanding NDIS legal appeals to be reviewed by new taskforce, Bill Shorten says

Luke Henriques-Gomes
Guardian Australia
Tuesday 20th September, 2022
A new independent body will review thousands of outstanding national disability insurance scheme legal appeals in an attempt to “cut the bullshit” for participants and applicants, the NDIS minister, Bill
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