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‘Tampering with evidence’: More academics accuse NDIA of misrepresenting their views

Dan Jervis-Bardy
Canberra Times
Friday 14th May, 2021
The agency in charge of the National Disability Insurance Scheme has been accused by more academics of misrepresenting expert evidence in its efforts to justify the introduction of mandatory independent
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Here’s why planned NDIS reforms discriminate against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

John Gilroy
Mirage News
Thursday 6th May, 2021
Most of the suite of independent assessment tools haven’t been rigorously tested or evaluated for their application with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. Assessment tools should be evaluated with
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Advocates perplexed over government’s independent assessments plan

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Tuesday 4th May, 2021
Disability advocates say they are confused by the federal government’s messaging around independent assessments, after National Disability Insurance Scheme Minister Linda Reynolds confirmed the controversial reform will proceed in “some
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Head of NDIS grilled on ‘insulting’ disability assessment questions, including about sex

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Tuesday 4th May, 2021
Taleporos, who is one of 3,000 people who have taken part in an assessments trial, told the Drum last month he had “just met this person and they asked me
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‘Robo-planning a disgrace’: NDIS architect slams independent assessments

Jewel Topsfield
SMH
Friday 23rd April, 2021
He said the assessments were not independent and should be called “robo-planning” because, like robo-debt, they applied a mathematical formula in ways it should never be used. “Robo-planning could be
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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
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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
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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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