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Intervention in G93966 – HYY (Guardianship) VCAT 97 – Jan 2022

Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
Thursday 19th May, 2022
This case is about when and how an appointed guardian can authorise the use of forcible physical restraint in order to administer medication to people under their guardianship. This case
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‘More stress, more waste’: The fight for the future of the NDIS

Jewel Topsfield
SMH
Saturday 30th April, 2022
“We have to go for an internal review and if that’s not successful, we will have to go to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. More costs, more stress, more waste, more
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The devaluation of Disabled lives

Georgia Cranko
The Saturday Paper
Saturday 2nd April, 2022

Ann Marie Smith died in abject circumstances, at the hands of her carer in the middle-class Adelaide suburb of Kingston Park. Her killing raises questions about the way our society…

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NDIA scrutinised woman’s social media posts to challenge her eligibility, tribunal decision reveals

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Friday 1st April, 2022
National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) staff reviewed the social media accounts of a woman applying for the scheme and sent a report to a doctor engaged to provide an expert
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AAT approve SDA: Second bedroom for single resident

Todd Winther
DSC
Wednesday 2nd March, 2022
Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) has gone through a period of significant change, particularly as to testing a participant’s eligibility. More participants are going through an already rigorous process, only for
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‘I am going to starve’: Ex-bricklayer’s disability pension plea

Emily McPherson
Nine News
Thursday 17th February, 2022
Given his physical struggles, Mr Patterson said he was shocked when his application for a disability support pension (DSP) – backed up with doctor's letters - was rejected by Centrelink
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Families in crisis after NDIS funding cuts to participants with autism and intellectual disabilities

Bridget Rollason
ABC News
Friday 11th February, 2022
When Karen McKenzie received an unexpected letter from the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) in August, she had to read it three times before it sank in. Her son Jarrod,
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Father of severely disabled woman dies, NDIA tells 86-year-old grandmother to look after her

Rhett Burnie
ABC News
Wednesday 8th December, 2021
Disability Advocacy Network Australia CEO Mary Mallett labelled the NDIA's decision to deny Laura funding for supported accommodation as unfair. "It isn't fair and … it is completely inappropriate that
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A fierce advocate for disability rights

Wendy Williams
PBA
Tuesday 7th December, 2021
Samantha Connor has a strong track record as a disability and human rights advocate and is a passionate believer that disabled people have the right to be unapologetic in taking
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‘Brought me to tears’: family who won landmark NDIS challenge now face cut to support

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Monday 29th November, 2021
In 2017 the McGarrigles, supported by Victoria Legal Aid, won a landmark case over NDIS transport funding that had implications for thousands of other participants. The agency appealed to the
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A love letter to my disability, Myalgic encephalomyelitis

Alice Rumble
ABCOpinion
Sunday 21st November, 2021
Although we've had to grieve my past self and career plans, you've freed me from the weight of my own expectations about who and what I should be. You've helped
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‘Heartless bureaucracy’: Cancer patient’s struggle to get NDIS help for son

Dana Daniel
SMH
Thursday 28th October, 2021
The mother of an eight-year-old boy with severe autism has detailed her “exhausting” administrative battle for NDIS funding while recovering from breast cancer as her son became physically aggressive.
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