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Financial impact of timely NDIS funding for housing and support

Di Winkler.
PBA
Wednesday 17th August, 2022
The SDA provider experience report shows there are more than 1,000 vacancies in new, purpose-built homes. The report shows that the vacancies are not due to a lack of demand,
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People with intellectual disability can be parents and caregivers too – but the NDIS doesn’t support them

Susan Collings, Gabrielle Hindmarsh, Margaret Spencer and Nikki Wedgwood
The Conversation
Tuesday 16th August, 2022
Child protection statistics are a sober reminder of the vulnerability these families face if they fall between the cracks of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and mainstream support services.
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NDIS alarm bells must not go unanswered

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The Age
Monday 15th August, 2022
Then there are the criminals who prefer more of a hands-off approach, using accomplices such as doctors, pharmacists and accountants to exploit loopholes by variously billing for “clients” who don’t
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NDIS taskforce to hunt down organised crime groups ‘robbing’ billions from disability clients

Jake Evans
ABC News
Monday 15th August, 2022
The head of the Criminal Intelligence Commission, Michael Phelan, told Nine newspapers that criminals were systemically "ripping off our most vulnerable people".
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The Big Steal

Nick McKenzie
60 Minutes, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
Sunday 14th August, 2022
It’s a sad reality of life that some truly awful people walk among us. However, the title of “most despicable” must surely go to members of the organised crime networks
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Meet the people hurt most by criminals ripping off the NDIS

Nick McKenzie and Amelia Ballinger
SMH
Sunday 14th August, 2022

Mark Gray struggles to stomach the concept that drug traffickers and money launderers are exploiting the welfare program that has helped give his son a quality of life not possible…

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Guideline: How to claim from my plan

NDIA
Wednesday 10th August, 2022

The Operational Guideline has information about how to make a claim after receiving an approved support and outlines all types of plan management (self-managed, using a registered plan manager or…

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Delivering a functional NDIS eMarket

Marie Johnson
Innovation Aus
Wednesday 10th August, 2022
The NDIS eMarket did not proceed. This is an appalling situation. Instead, what the Australian community has been left with is a cadaverous, inert and incomprehensible spreadsheet which is the
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NDIS participants are left waiting for too long in hospital beds due to bureaucratic delays

Di Winkler
The Conversation
Wednesday 10th August, 2022
There are 3,000 vacancies in disability housing and 1,430 NDIS participants stuck in hospital because the bureaucratic process of securing adequate NDIA funding for housing and support is complex and
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Why are NDIS clients having to fight for vital support?

Michael Atkin
ABC 7:30
Thursday 1st January, 1970
When the National Disability Insurance Scheme was created, then prime minister Julia Gillard said it would provide security and dignity to millions of Australians. More than half a million Australians
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Calls for people with disability to lead NDIA

ABC News
Monday 1st August, 2022
Tuesday 2nd August, 2022
Advocates say it is time for the National Disability Insurance Agency to be led by those it serves. Interview with Christina Ryan who heads the Disability Leadership Institute.
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Australian disability advocates say the NDIS needs one of its own ‘at the top’

Elizabeth Wright
ABC News
Monday 1st August, 2022
Just like non-disabled people, people with disability have knowledge, skills and talent that shoots out in all directions. Unlike non-disabled people though, people with disability are rarely given opportunities to
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