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Shoppers take note
It’s the everyday things that are sometimes the most challenging for mums, dads and carers of children with disability. Tasks like getting the weekly groceries can be that much harder when you’re trying to juggle a trolley and a wheelchair at the same time. The move by Coles to introduce new trolleys for kids with disability into many of its supermarkets will make this one everyday task a little easier.
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Warning that people with a disability would be at risk of poor quality support if service prices remain too low
People with a disability would be at risk of poor quality support and struggle to find a place with providers if service prices remain too low, a disability peak body warns.
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Students with disabilities report drop in support from Tasmanian schools
There are claims some Tasmanian schools could be breaching the Anti-Discrimination Act by failing to adequately support students with disabilities. The Tasmanian Disability Education Reform Lobby surveyed more
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Take Action: how do you want to live?
The NDIS is designed to give choice and control to people with disability. There are many and varied ways that people with disability will want to live and we have listed a few below.
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The NDIA housing response decoder
Over the last few weeks thousands of our supporters emailed the National Disability Insurance Agency and asked them to release the plan for housing under the NDIS.
The response from the Agency on this vital issue was disappointing, bureaucratic and hard to read. We thought we’d have a go at de-coding it for you because on the question of housing, people with disability and the NDIS, we need it to be crystal-clear.
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Support group for young people living in nursing homes wants Federal Government to get them out of aged care sector
A support group for young people who live in nursing homes has called on the Federal Government to bring departments together to get young people out of the
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Our iconic places set accessibility example
It’s great to see some of our cultural icons and natural places finally getting on board and taking accessibility more seriously. Here are two examples we’ve seen lately.
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You’ve just got to give it a go
Willow’s mum Janelle wasn’t sure her daughter would be eligible for the NDIS. She decided to give it a go, applied to the Scheme, and now the family is seeing real benefits.
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Click here for your chance to make a better life
We all want the NDIS to succeed. Thousands of lives are already being improved at the trial sites, and we know eventually the NDIS will make a huge difference for nearly half a million Australians. But to ensure the NDIS works well for everybody, we need people to feel safe and confident using it.
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NDIS: on budget
The latest quarterly report from the National Disability Insurance Agency is out and it shows growing numbers of people are benefiting from the NDIS.
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Changes proposed for disability support payments to encourage people into work.
In 2013 the Federal Government commissioned a review of Australia’s welfare sector and the final report was released today.
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NSW confirms bi-partisan approach to NDIS
Bipartisan political support for the continuing roll out of the NDIS was strongly in evidence at the recent NSW conference of non-government support providers, National Disability Services.
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She’ll be right says COAG but housing crisis remains
If the communiqué released this week from meeting of the COAG Disability Reform Council is anything to go by, Australia is all systems go for the NDIS. But the supply of affordable and liveable housing remains a key question.
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Home Sweet Home: the housing crisis for people with disability.
Home, sweet home. Three simple words that say so much about our happiness, our dreams and goals in life.
Many Australians take those words for granted. But some people, including people with disabilities, may never be able to utter those three simple words, and all because of a lack of suitable housing.
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Housing: the big sleeper
Anyone with a disability will tell you that finding affordable, accessible housing is next to impossible. There are huge wait lists, too many young people in nursing homes and growing numbers of older parents despairing what will happen to their children when they can’t care for them anymore.
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Expanding my horizon
It’s taking Stephen a while to get his head around being able to do things now that previously would have been impossible without the NDIS.
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Funding for mental health services to quadruple under NDIS
Funding for mental health services will quadruple as the government prepares to transition service providers to the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS).
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RecruitAbility? Just give us a job!
The Australian Public Service has launched a new scheme, RecruitAbility in an effort to raise the woefully low number of people with a disability they employ.
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NDIS Step 1: Think and Prepare
The NDIS is coming. Admittedly not fast enough for many of us but the fact that it will be rolled out across Australia in the next few years means now is a good time to start thinking about how to prepare.
Every Australian Counts has talked to lots of people in the trial sites and asked them what they think people with disability need to do to get ready for the NDIS.
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‘We want to work’ says ‘Living on the Disability Support Pension’ report
A new report has been released which illustrates just how hard it can be for people with disability to break into the workforce and get meaningful jobs. It shows that many people with disability are forced to do voluntary or unpaid work instead.
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Up, up and away with fairer service
Thanks to some great work by the Public Interest Advocacy Group and the Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW, people with a disability flying with a carer can now access discount online fares with Virgin Australia.
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Report finds current system fails people with disabilities
The 2015 Report on Government Services was released this week and it shows just how few eligible people have been able to access the support they needed through the current disability support system.
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Disability support and the NDIS: why doing nothing isn’t an option
Recently there have been some murmurings in the media, questioning the cost of the NDIS and where Australia will find the money to pay for it. Yet what is often missed in the budget debate is the cost to Australia of NOT introducing the NDIS.
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Life’s never been better really
Siobhan is 14 years old. She loves music, boccia and Facebook and her life has been transformed by the NDIS.
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