The NDIS has ‘saved’ the budget: how good is trampling the poor and powerless?
Would it hurt to stay in debt and spend the money on services that society needs? Yes, because that is SOCIALISM!
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Advocates fight plan to use surplus NDIS funds to boost budget
Disability groups are demanding that the Morrision government keep any unspent National Disability Insurance Scheme money within the scheme, after reports emerged the funds will be used to boost the budget bottom line.
Advocacy groups struggle amid growing NDIS waiting lists
Advocacy services are being swamped with people needing help appealing their National Disability Insurance Scheme plans, disability groups have warned in the wake of new funding to the sector.
Barriers and exclusions: The support needs of newly arrived refugees with a disability
For a multitude of reasons, people from refugee backgrounds are more likely to have a disability than other populations. Up until 2012, people with disabilities or with serious health concerns were excluded from Australia’s resettlement program. In 2012 a policy change meant that Australia allowed refuges with disability to be granted visas. However , this … Continued
Is life getting better or worse for people with disabilities?
A recent study from our Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health(CRE-DH) has confirmed what we already know: people with disabilities experience discrimination and disadvantage in many areas of their lives. But our study findings are especially worrying because they suggest that, in most aspects of life, inequities between working-age Australians with and without disabilities are persisting, and in some areas growing.
The PM wants us to choose between farmers and people with disabilities. We don’t have to.
What’s most alarming to me — and it’s not a new trend either — is that politics has stooped so low that it’s now commonplace for disadvantaged people and communities to be traded off and used like some kind of warped card game.
Sunsuper faces legal action over alleged ‘improper’ payments for disability benefits
The former fruit picker and cleaner, who was injured at work in July 2016, is locked in a fight with Sunsuper, one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds. She has accused them of failing to properly pay out her permanent disability claim, and compensation lawyers say she is one of many being put under severe financial stress by the organisation.
Australia needs lasting consensus on NDIS funding
People with disability, their families, carers and advocates deserve the certainty of a National Disability Insurance Scheme which is sustainable, writes Bruce Bonyhady. Fortunately, a blueprint for the best way forward – which would also strengthen the sustainability of the NDIS – is clear from the Productivity Commission reports on the NDIS in both 2011 … Continued
Setting up special disability trusts
Parents and immediate family members will often seek to provide financial assistance to help a disabled family member. One option can be to establish a Special Disability Trust (SDT).
Sharp decline in people accessing disability support pension
Tougher compliance measures have led to a sharp decline in people accessing the Disability Support Pension, with the Department of Human Services revealing almost 75 per cent of claims for the scheme were rejected in 2016-17.
People are worse off’: NDIS funding gaps leave many without care in Victoria
While she has been on the Disability Support Pension for 10 years, Ms Irvine said her application to the NDIS was rejected because her illness is considered a medical condition, not a disability.
Review of the National Advocacy Program – Consultation Report
This report summarises the responses received to the Discussion Paper, meetings with stakeholders by phone, in small groups and in large forums, and relevant research and review findings. It describes the themes and strategies identified, and provides some clarification of aspects of disability advocacy.
Census shows increase in children with disability, but even more are still uncounted
The 2016 Census has revealed an increase in the number of children with disability, up nearly 40,000 since 2011. One explanation is that the census now counts disability differently, which is more in line with the way many children and families view disability. But other children continue to miss out on support because they do … Continued
Pauline Hanson’s call to ‘segregate’ children with disabilities ‘bigoted’, advocates say
Disability advocates and politicians have slammed One Nation senator Pauline Hanson’s call for children with autism and disabilities to be removed from mainstream classrooms, saying the “hurtful” idea would amount to “segregation”.
Students with disability lack government funding to excel at school, statistics show
The revelation earlier this year that hundreds of thousands of students with a disability are in school without any additional funding to support their education has been reinforced by new statistics.