A 50-year-old woman with severe intellectual disabilities faces possible deportation next month and the prospect of spending the rest of her life in an Indian institution, after her mother’s visa application was rejected.
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 the NDIS is the most confounding barrier she has faced yet.
Australia’s Disability Laws is set up based on the person with disability having to make a complaint. It is up to the person with disability to challenge discrimination when it happens. Is the constant complaint-making affecting our mental health?
Despite her own deafness, Elena Down became a leading legal expert in developing agreements safeguarding the rights of disabled people.
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 last financial year, amid the NDIS’ troubled nationwide rollout.
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 commonwealth ombudsman increased from 62 in 2015-16 to 429 last financial year, the ABC reported on Saturday morning.
new film Defiant Lives directed by Sarah Barton charts the history of disability rights activism around the world. The film reveals just how much in our world has changed due to their work. Think of those raised bumps at traffic lights, the sounds and the ramped curbs, which wouldn’t be there without the efforts of activists.
Robin and Bernard Shanahan are exhausted. They’ve been lobbying on behalf of their two children with disabilities for decades. Now in their seventies, they’d like to enjoy a well-earned retirement.
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, has been dismissed by the Federal Court.
Around one in five Australians live with a disability — and like the rest of the ageing population, they’ll require end of life care when they become ill. But close attention and understanding of the palliative care needs of disabled people is sorely lacking.
At just seven years of age Daniel was expelled from his Victorian government school. Daniel has autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, anxiety and depression and his conditions make him more likely to be expelled according to a new report from the state ombudsman.
Julianne Bugeja recently filmed her daily encounter with a locked gate at University Park Primary, which prevents access to her daughter living with spinal muscular atrophy. This means that Alyssa, who has spinal muscular atrophy and uses a wheelchair, is unable to wait for her younger brother inside the yard when he finishes school.
When a degenerative disease robbed Holly Craig of her eyesight, she gave up on her dreams of a career on stage. Almost a decade later, Craig, now 27, is beginning to dream again, as she takes centre stage for a solo dance in a production at the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney.
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 has already prompted some organisations to make radical changes to service design, workforce planning and risk management practices.
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… resulting in lower quality support and increased risks for participants”.