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Dear Minister Reynolds…

VCOSS blog
Thursday 15th April, 2021
It’s a big day – your first Disability Reform Ministers Meeting with your State and Territory counterparts. Many matters will require shared leadership, decision-making and coordinated implementation by the Commonwealth,
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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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Family Voices

Early Childhood Intervention Australia (ECIA)
Friday 9th April, 2021
This podcast series features casual conversations with families of children with disability and/or developmental delay and the professionals they work alongside. The aim is to support and build families’ knowledge,
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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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Pressure grows on Morrison government to halt new NDIS assessment plan

Luke Henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Friday 2nd April, 2021
The strongest rebuke has come from the Victorian government, whose disability minister, Luke Donnellan, said on Thursday the so-called “robo-planning” proposal “attacks the very principles on which the NDIS was
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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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‘Just a draft’ still means it was – or is – in the mix

Adam Schickerling
Pro Bono News
Monday 29th March, 2021
To be honest, there are many things about this situation that confound me. Not least the fact that exclusion by condition seems to be an additional assault on the core
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Secretive approach to reform threatens consensus on NDIS

Editorial
The Age
Sunday 28th March, 2021
The idea of a single national scheme to give the disabled more dignity and control has enjoyed bipartisan support for the past decade, but that consensus appears to be fraying
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No choice and no voice Mooted NDIS changes slammed

Mirage News
Friday 26th March, 2021
The Head of Policy at the ACT Council of Social Service, Craig Wallace, said “While we note that the Federal Minister has said this is one of a number of
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Stuart Robert hits back after disability advocates sound alarm over NDIS speculation

Evan Young
SBS
Saturday 27th March, 2021
NDIS Minister Stuart Robert has sought to downplay a report about leaked proposed changes to the scheme that sparked anger and distress from disability advocates. Mr Robert said he had
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