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Leaked plans to reform NDIS lead to crisis talks across disability sector

Mirage News
Friday 26th March, 2021
People with Disability Australia President Samantha Connor said reports about the confidential 300 page draft: “To discover that there are significant changes proposed that will disadvantage people with disability, along
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NDIS independent assessment process subject to massive conflicts of interest

Mirage News
Thursday 25th March, 2021
The Morrison Government is allowing corporations with massive conflicts of interest – including one run by former NDIA CEO Robert De Luca – to begin cashing in on planned Independent
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Bendigo family fears NDIS independent assessments will jeopardise daughter’s wellbeing

Elspeth Kernebone
Bendigo Advertiser
Monday 22nd March, 2021
"It's pretty unfair in Australia, to say the people most vulnerable, least able to speak up for themselves and advocate for themselves, are at the mercy of legislation that puts
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The NDIS and government controls

Rick Morton.
The Saturday Paper
Saturday 20th March, 2021

A win for the government in its push to deny people on the National Disability Insurance Scheme access to sex worker supports may hand the Commonwealth even greater power to…

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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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‘Material changes’ needed to NDIS independent assessments

Katina Curtis
SMH
Wednesday 24th March, 2021
Commissioner Ben Gauntlett told a Senate estimates hearing the Australian Human Rights Commission had concerns the new policy “might undermine the effectiveness of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and not
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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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NDIS architect Bruce Bonyhady urges rethink of independent assessments

Pat McGrath and Alison McClymont
ABC Investigations
Thursday 18th March, 2021
Former National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) chairman Bruce Bonyhady says the government needs to "go back to the drawing board", describing as "robo-planning" the new independent assessment model being introduced
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NDS calls for rollout of compulsory NDIS assessments to cease

Mirage News
Friday 12th March, 2021
“The real worry for us is that these results cannot be challenged or appealed easily,” says David Moody, CEO of NDS. “In fact, people will not be given a copy
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Joint Statement: This is not the NDIS we fought for

Every Australian Counts Blog
Wednesday 10th March, 2021
This is the disability sector's statement on the Australian Government’s planned reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). - People with disability, their families and the organisations that represent
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