The agreement to launch the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in 2012 was met with great excitement. It also came with large expectations about the transformation this would bring in terms of services and outcomes for people with disability.
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is to appeal a Federal Court decision over funding arrangements for transport costs under the National Disability Insurance Scheme, claiming it will be a test case for the future viability of the scheme.
In follow up to the Summer Housing story on Lateline last week, George has written an article for Pro Bono News which highlights the importance of the disability and housing sectors working together so that people with disability can choose where they live, and who they live with. It points to the role that SDA … Continued
Department stores are increasingly using young models from diverse cultural backgrounds and children with disabilities in catalogues and advertising campaigns. That shift isn’t by accident.
Just one day after the ABC aired last week’s Four Corners investigation into taxpayer-funded group homes for the disabled, my office had a call about an extremely troubling case of violence in a home for people with disabilities in Victoria.
Landmark decision comes as court rules transport to and from Victorian man’s disability support program is a ‘reasonable and necessary’ support.
The Victorian Government has launched an independent review of a disability group home provider accused of ignoring claims of sexual abuse of its clients.
A hundred years ago people with an intellectual disability were locked up in “lunatic asylums”. Today they’re still locked away, but it’s just behind the walls of suburbia.
In a joint statement released on Tuesday, the group of more than 25 different organisations, called on senators to block the mobility allowance bill that is currently before the Senate.
The public sector is well suited to employing people with autism but more needs to be done to foster workplace diversity, according to disability employment advocate Bill Gamack.
As an ABC journalist for almost two decades, one issue I have reported on that has rattled me more than any other is the discrimination against people with a disability in Australia’s justice system.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) stopped processing thousands of applications from service providers, critical staff were untrained and properties were not ready when the scheme’s nationwide rollout began, documents have revealed.
The 31-year-old from Kellyville values her independence and had high hopes for the scheme when she joined last year but says her transport budget has been cut by three-quarters, leaving her scrambling to make her funding stretch to cover her needs.
Inadequate disability-specific services in prison make this exclusion inconsistent with conditions in the United Nations’ “Mandela Rules”. These set out minimum requirements for the treatment of prisoners. They state health care in prison must be equivalent to that in the community. Excluding prisoners from the NDIS is also inconsistent with Articles 12 and 13 of … Continued
There are over 6,000 young people in aged care waiting to get onto the NDIS. These young people are living in aged care facilities because the current disability system has failed them.