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Micheline Lee
The Monthly
Monday 4th September, 2017
The NDIS promised choice and control but what is it really delivering? In this essay, Micheline Lee shares her experience of living with disability her whole life and how accessing
Dan Conifer
ABC News
Saturday 26th August, 2017
Complaints about the National Disability Insurance Scheme have soared by about 700 per cent in the past year. Reports to the Commonwealth Ombudsman jumped from 62 in 2015-16 to 429
Christopher Knaus
The Guardian
Saturday 26th August, 2017

Disability groups say the increasing number of complaints about the national disability insurance scheme reflects a “planning process in crisis”. The number of complaints about the NDIS made to the…

Wendy Williams
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 23rd August, 2017
An attempt by the National Disability Insurance Agency to appeal a ruling that the agency must fully fund supports accepted as “reasonable and necessary” under the National Disability Insurance Scheme,
Skye Rose
ProBono Australia
Monday 14th August, 2017

The introduction of the NDIS in July 2016 presented significant challenges and opportunities for disability service providers. The shift away from block government funding for standardised services to consumer-directed care…

Lina Caneva
Pro Bono News
Thursday 10th August, 2017

The report found that the current NDIS pricing arrangements, set by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), failed to “recognise the time required to deliver quality services to NDIS participants……

Josh Williamson,
Australian Financial Review,
Wednesday 26th July, 2017
The $22 billion NDIS went national on July 1. The scheme enjoys rare bipartisan support but questions have been raised over its sustainability and value for money. This debate should
A Current Affair
Channel Nine
Tuesday 13th June, 2017

A single mother has called for a re-think of the National Disability Insurance Scheme after she was left without enough support to properly care for her severely disabled son.

Matt Jones
Daily Telegraph Sydney
Tuesday 4th July, 2017

Tammie Lansley feels she may be forced to relinquish care of her son Nathan to the government — because the government won’t offer her the support she needs to look…

Rachel Siewert
ProBono News
Thursday 25th May, 2017
Thursday 1st January, 1970

Given the National Disability Insurance Scheme has support across the political spectrum there is a reluctance to heavily criticise it despite a parliamentary inquiry which is revealing that the system…

Vern Hughes
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 24th May, 2017

Despite, or perhaps because of, the limited knowledge of disability by policy makers, politicians, and journalists seven years ago, NDIS was seized upon as a “solution” to the systemic dysfunction…

Wendy Williams
Pro Bono News
Thursday 25th May, 2017

The National Disability Insurance Scheme is not living up to expectations and may even be exacerbating the inequities it was designed to solve, according to a new report.