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Naomi Selvaratnam
SBS - Transcript from World News Radio
Tuesday 24th March, 2015

School principals say they are facing an urgent crisis in funding students with a disability-and most have been forced to dip into other budgets to support their disabled students. The…

Julia May
Sydney Morning Herald
Sunday 1st March, 2015

Federal government delays a 40 per cent funding cut to the disability sector amid allegations it was in breach of United Nations convention. The federal government has made a partial…

Julia May
Herald Sun
Sunday 15th February, 2015

Michael Sullivan has his own name for the NDIS, one that he believes better explains the scheme’s purpose. Speaking at a disability conference earlier this month, he said a National…

Julia May
The Age
Friday 13th February, 2015

The new arrangement threatens eight peak bodies, with 200,000 members. The former chairman of the United Nations committee representing people with disabilities has added his voice to the chorus of…

Julia May
The Age
Saturday 7th February, 2015

The Federal Government’s cuts to the disability sector are a “catastrophic” blow and breach the United Nations convention on the rights of disabled people, advocacy groups and one of the…

Graeme Innes
The Guardian
Friday 9th January, 2015

In the final days of 2014, the meagre funding granted to disability advocacy groups was cut. It ended an annus horribilis for the sector When there’s cricket on the radio,…

Australian Human Rights Commission
Media Release
Thursday 16th May, 2013

Indigenous people with disability will benefit from a $900,000 funding package announced today to improve access to national disability support services. The First People’s Disability Network Australia will receive the…

Opinion
The Age

DisabilityCare Australia may be Julia Gillard’s enduring legacy. In a budget week of deficits and billion-dollar figures, of cuts and thrusts across the body politic, there was a moment of…