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NDIS cost-cutting taskforce told to reduce growth in participants and spending

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Tuesday 13th April, 2021
The agency that runs the national disability insurance scheme has quietly established a new taskforce aimed at cutting growth in funding packages and participant numbers. Guardian Australia has obtained an
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Why controversial and ‘widely rejected’ changes to the NDIS have Australia’s disability community worried

Jodie Stephens
SBS
Sunday 11th April, 2021
A spokesman for Senator Reynolds said this week she would soon be having comprehensive briefings with her state and territory counterparts, the disability sector and NDIS participants.
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Flawed, unethical and dangerous’: new NDIS assessments risk traumatising the vulnerable

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Saturday 10th April, 2021
“I think it is a rotten idea,” Lambert, 46, says. “The NDIA should bugger off and leave people with disability with enough money to be able to live an ordinary
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Disability advocates urge Linda Reynolds to scrap NDIS independent assessments

SBS News
Wednesday 7th April, 2021
More than 20 organisations have jointly called on the new NDIS Minister to abandon the introduction of the contentious independent assessments.
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Disability sector demands answers from Federal Government over “tampered” NDIS review

Cathy Van Extel
RN Breakfast
Wednesday 7th April, 2021
The disability sector is demanding answers from the Federal Government over the independence of a report used to justify controversial reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Documents released
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Secret documents show department inserted chapter into NDIS review

Rob Harris
SMH
Tuesday 6th April, 2021

Emails and draft copies of the 2019 report, written by former senior public servant David Tune, show National Disability Insurance Agency officials inserted an entire chapter into the review of…

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Dr Ben Gauntlett, Senate Estimates statement

Dr Ben Gauntlett
Senate Estimates
Thursday 4th March, 2021
Disability Discrimination Commissioner Dr Ben Gauntlett told Senate estimates it was important to remember that the independent assessment policy change had not yet been put into legislation. While he said
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Leaked laws reveal plan to kick Australians off the $22 billion NDIS

Rob Harris
SMH
Friday 26th March, 2021
The Morrison government is considering radical reforms to the $22 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme including denying funding to Australians with acquired brain injuries and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder as
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Independent Assessments: Look what you’ve created

Anonymous Contributor
VCOSS Blog
Thursday 25th March, 2021
Independent Assessments are putting complete control over my ability to live an ordinary life in the hands of seven groups of professionals that I’ve never had contact with – and
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NDIS assessments: ombudsman warns against rushing changes

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Wednesday 17th March, 2021
In a submission to a parliamentary inquiry which is examining what some call the biggest change to the scheme since it began, the ombudsman, Michael Manthorpe, did not comment on
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Not the NDIS we fought for’: disability advocates fear new assessments driven by cost cutting

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Thursday 11th March, 2021
Twenty advocacy groups are concerned a desire to save money could see an end to the scheme’s ‘individualised approach’. Dougie Herd, who helped campaign for the NDIS, said the mandatory
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‘Dehumanising’ and ‘a nightmare’: why disability groups want NDIS independent assessments scrapped

Helen Dickinson
Crokey
Friday 12th March, 2021
The government says this new approach is aimed at making the NDIS fairer. But many people with disability think it is about cost-cutting. They also say an independent assessment is
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