Australians know that spending money to support people with disability is not simply a cost, but an investment. An investment that we all benefit from. So next time you hear
The NDIS is designed to cut through the barriers faced by many with disabilities when moving through daily life, but instead, it seems to have created an even bigger and
There is fierce opposition to NDIS independent assessments coming not only from the disability community, but also legal groups, medical bodies, state governments and others, according to SBS News analysis
It was revealed that the results from the series of diagnostic tools used in independent assessments would allocate a ‘score’ to participants who would then be matched to some 400
Jeffrey Smart, who has Parkinson's disease, told a parliamentary committee investigating the National Disability Insurance Scheme his independent assessment was inaccurate, incomplete and irrelevant. He said the report would not
"For most of last year, due to COVID, I wasn't able to spend my money for therapies," Mr Monks told ABC Radio Perth's Nadia Mitsopoulos at a specially-convened forum to
“The new proposal seeks to take 500,000 people and divide them up into … personas or types or disability boxes to feed a score into one of 400 boxes. That
The theatre of citizen-centric has now run its course. And in the year 2021, citizen-centric has been replaced by the ungoverned rise of machine-centric algorithms. Last week under questioning at
Surviving my injury wasn't the only battle I faced. I also had to learn the bureaucracy and confusion that is the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a scheme supposedly designed
Researchers say independent assessments will not address any of the inequities plaguing the NDIS. Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) surveyed 270 people in January/February to understand their
Questions have also been raised over the need for the My NDIS app, which will provide in an app what is currently available to NDIS participants through the web browser,
The agency that runs the national disability insurance scheme is seeking to increase the number of people that “exit” the scheme and reduce overall spending on funding packages through a
