NDIS rollout completed in Victoria
More than 7,850 Victorians living with disability will start receiving services from the NDIS as it rolls into Goulburn, Mallee and Outer Gippsland.
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Clothing labels for people with disabilities offer much-needed comfort and dignity
When Trish Jackson goes shopping at any department store, she knows it will be a difficult experience to find items that suit her needs.
NDIS criticised for ‘failing to provide second carer’ in Nischal Ghimire drowning case
Closing date: January 11, 2019
The drowning of a carer could have been avoided if the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) had responded to requests for a second carer for an autistic boy, a South Australian MP has claimed.
Hollywood’s disability problem goes way beyond Bryan Cranston
I’ve haven’t seen “The Upside,” and I’m pretty sure I never will. The movie, which comes out Jan. 11, stars “Breaking Bad” actor Bryan Cranston as a quadriplegic billionaire named Phillip Lacasse who hires a former felon to be his caretaker.
Health Minister Greg Hunt to unveil extra $47m funding into mental health of young Australians
Boosting the mental health of young Australians is at the centre of a $47 million investment into headspace.
Elderly disabled woman wins legal battle over access to her Travancore apartment
A 76-year-old woman with physical disabilities forced to ask strangers on the street to help her open the door to her Travancore building has won a significant legal case in which two owners corporations were ordered to pay her $10,000 and install automated doors and ramps in the building.
No “opt out” for NDIS Participants
My Health Record has been all over the news, with the federal government scrambling to allow extra time for consumers to deliberate over whether their privacy is at risk and to decide exactly how much of their personal medical information they want to share. The concept of privacy as a right for consumers and citizens of Australia isn’t always awarded the same seriousness for people with disability.
ILC investment strategy: Funding secure to 2022
The much anticipated ILC Investment Strategy taking us beyond 2020 was released within a hair’s breadth of Christmas Eve.
The strategy remains true to its foundation principles outlined in the Commissioning Framework, particularly in relation to the importance of maintaining a strong outcomes focus and the balance between building individual capacity and creating broader opportunities for people with disability.
However, it is in the application of these principles that we see a different approach to previous years.
Support grows for royal commission into disability sector following abuse reports
Labor and the Greens are calling for a royal commission into the disability services sector, firming up a path for legislation if this year’s federal election puts Labor into government.
Delivering greater choice for Victorians with disability
More than 7,850 Victorians living with disability will start receiving services from the NDIS as it rolls into Goulburn, Mallee and Outer Gippsland.
A different way of thinking
What if the world stopped seeing autism as abnormal? Many people with Asperger’s syndrome or autism embrace their condition. They seek respect for ‘neurodiversity’, not a cure.
These young people aren’t making apps or selling start-ups, they’re innovating to help the world
When Huy Nguyen heads to the beach in his wheelchair, the sand is no longer a barrier. He simply pulls out prototype clip-on tracks for his wheelchair and pushes himself to the water’s edge.
The entrepreneurs with disabilities pioneering solutions for others like them
Surrounded by other budding entrepreneurs at a startup incubator in Sydney’s inner-city, Oliver Morton-Evans is explaining how he is hoping to help stroke and spinal cord injury patients.
NDIS IT systems hobbling scheme, inquiry finds
A failure to design the IT systems behind the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) around participants has resulted in “administrative burden and additional transaction costs”, a parliamentary inquiry has found.
Government backflips on DSP suspension cut for prisoners
A campaign to reverse the federal government’s reduction to the suspension time of the Disability Support Pension for people in prison has been successful, keeping it at two years rather than 13 weeks.