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October 10 2024 is World Homelessness Day and World Mental Health Day A shocking number of Australians with psychosocial disabilities are struggling with unmet housing and support needs, prompting calls…
The Grattan Institute Better, safer, more sustainable: How to reform NDIS housing and support (2024) report argues that there are better and cheaper alternatives to group homes. Read the report below…
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is transforming the lives of hundreds of thousands of Australians with disability. For the first time, many can get the help they need to…
VALID’s ‘My Housing Plan’ project looks to change this by giving people with disability accessible information and a roadmap around their housing and living options. This gives people a chance…
As part of a video series with Elly Desmarchelier Minister Bill Shorten answers some of the #disability community’s questions about housing and living. He acknowledges while there have been pockets…
The Disability and Social Services Regulation Amendment Act 2023 (the Amendment Act) makes changes to the Disability Act 2006, Residential Tenancies Act 1997 (Residential Tenancies Act) and other Acts to…
Over 75 percent of the 4.4 million Australians with disability reported that a physical disorder was causing them the most problems, as per the latest available data from the Australian…
As Australian governments urgently build new homes to deal with the national housing shortage, there are concerns many of those new builds won’t meet the needs of our ageing population.
Homes Victoria has created the ‘Considerations for use of Supported Residential Services’ (SRS) guidance document, which can be used by services that interact with SRS to better consider when, and…
The Home and Living Section of the Review is just eight pages long, has three major principal recommendations, and has 28 actions required of the federal government. These statistics could…
The distressing state of affairs for adults with disability and mental health issues in Victoria has been highlighted in the 2022-2023 Community Visitor Annual Report, presented in Parliament this month.
The Summer Foundation submission on the exposure draft of the Bill for the new Aged Care Act.
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