The golden rule of supporting others is understand first, solve second – most of the time people are looking to feel heard rather than be fixed. And while Claire was struggling and stressing and advocating for her child, even friends – especially friends – were saying all the wrong things.
With barely a week left in the financial year, the NDIA have just released the 2022-23 Price Guide. Most supports will see the biggest increase in pricing to date – but there are some notable exceptions. Here’s the lowdown:
For the ABC’s National Disability Affairs reporter Nas Campanella, who is blind and lives with a neurological condition, figuring out how to navigate motherhood has been a wild ride.
The new parliament of Australia has been hailed as one of the most diverse in the country’s history. But how far along have we come and what more needs to be done? Of all of the 227 parliamentarians, there is only one person who presents a visible disability: WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John.
From 1 July 2022, price limits for all NDIS supports delivered by disability support workers will increase by 9 per cent, including a 2 per cent temporary loading in 2022-23, and all current NDIS plan budgets will be automatically increased to account for these price limit changes.
In climate disasters, research shows people with disabilities are four times more likely to die. The vulnerability of such community members was discussed at a recent disability and climate change workshop held by council. Disability advocates Lefa Singleton Norton, Jax Brown and Heather Lawson proposed solutions to better include people with a disability in the discussion around climate adaptation.
Statements by the recently-installed Labor government’s minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Bill Shorten, make it plain that plans are being drawn up to reduce spending on the scheme.
Over the past 20 years, people with disability could have wallpapered our houses with the many plans and strategies we were promised would close the employment gap between us and our non-disabled colleagues – but in reality, very little has changed.
Dr Peterson was left a a quadriplegic by the accident in Orange, New South Wales, but assistive technology and modifications to his home and work environment have enabled him to continue practising.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Minister Bill Shorten struck the deal with his state and territory counterparts in Melbourne on Friday, to help speed up patients leaving hospital. The plan will address the 1,100 NDIS recipients in medical facilities – some for several months – while they wait for appropriate accommodation to be made available.
Shorten said there had been a “catastrophic erosion of the trust between the disability sector and government”, and said the new federal government would work to restore that trust as a first step to rebuilding the NDIS.
In my experience, the current culture of the administrator of the NDIS – the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) – curbs peoples’ opportunities by focusing on and rewarding limitations. This is the opposite of what it was intended to do. According to its website, “the NDIS is designed to help people get the support they need so their skills and independence improve over time”.
Participants of a disability conference have unleashed on the outgoing boss of the National Disability Insurance Agency in what could be his last public event in the role. Martin Hoffman appeared in conversation with ABC host Patricia Karvelas on Thursday morning during the Where to From Here forum.
This fifteenth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an important moment for stocktaking and reflection. With 185 ratifications since its adoption in 2006, the Convention has crystallized the commitment of the international community to realize an inclusive, accessible, and sustainable world for all.
CEO of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) Martin Hoffman has resigned from the organisation, effective July 2. The NDIA board has accepted the resignation, saying in a statement it did so with regret. Chair Denis Napthine thanked Hoffman for his time at the organisation, saying Hoffman led the NDIA with ‘passion, grace and commitment’.