NDIS full rollout timetable on track
The timetable for the full rollout of the NDIS will be released in six months time.
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Disability in Australia: Unfinished Business
Our investment in the NDIS is a landmark achievement. However Australia requires deep cultural, structural, economic, legal and attitudinal change if we are to deliver on the reform agenda outlined by the Productivity Commission for disability in this country.
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Call for a comprehensive blueprint for the NDIS rollout ahead of today’s minsters meeting
“If I could sit in the room with the disability ministers today, I have one message for them. We need to know it’s coming, we need to know when it’s coming so we can plan. We need you to see it through.”
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Action calls for a national rollout strategy
While there are some incredible stories of transformation rolling in from the trail sites, the fact is that most people are still waiting for the NDIS.
At last count almost 9,000 people had approved NDIS plans so that leaves a good 450,000 people to go.
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Every Australian Counts transforms
Today we are excited to launch the next phase in the Every Australian Counts campaign. You told us you’d like to hear more from people in the NDIS trial sites. You told us you’d like to know more about exactly how the NDIS works on a practical level. And you told us you wanted us to keep up the pressure to make sure the NDIS rolls out on time and on budget.
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Vale Stella Young
Every Australian Counts mourns the loss of Stella Young, a passionate feminist, comic, writer and disability rights campaigner who died on the weekend at the young age of 32.
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NDIS – Where are we at? September 2014
More than 8,800 people with disability are now living their lives with an approved NDIS plan out of almost 11,000 people eligible for the scheme.
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Changing Attitudes Changes Lives
I roared out of the garage of Sydney University, and the College of Law, a shiny new lawyer. My social justice engine, fuelled by its knowledge of unfair dismissals and unconscionable contracts, was ready to drive people from the back roads of disadvantage onto the freeway of life.
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Work and the invisible disabling disease
Most of us have an idea in our heads of what ‘disabled’ looks like. It’s a very clear picture, and it usually involves wheel chairs or other visible devices.
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The starers, the nosy, the plain rude
If you’ve ever been to a grocery story with a toddler, it’s likely it’s happened to you.
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Minister Fifield reaffirms commitment to rolling out the NDIS in full.
Yesterday, Minister Fifield spoke about the NDIA’s Quarterly Report in Parliament. Importantly he reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to rolling out the NDIS in full.
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Lynn Foreman – a view from the beginning
She was there when it was just a dream, she was there when there was a tough campaign to be won, and now she’s here as a deserving beneficiary as it all kicks off. Meet Lynn Foreman, spritely 50-something, mother, grandmother, great grandmother (yep!) and NDIS user at the trial site in the Barwon (Geelong) area.
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Meet the monster truck of wheelchairs
Computer science lecturer David Stratton sits there beaming with a grin so wide you’d swear his face will just about crack in half. He’s on a large flat granite slab atop a peak called Mt Bishop in Victoria’s exquisite Wilsons Promontory National Park.
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The one thing all Australians with disability REALLY need
We all need love and care and support and dignity and a hundred other things, right? Including the right to vote.
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Opening address to the National Carer Conference 2014 – Assistant Minister for Social Services, Mitch Fifield
The Assistant Minister for Social Services, Mitch Fifield, delivered the opening address to this years National Carer Conference on Nov 16, 2014.
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Carers Role Becomes Clearer
Nearly 18 months on from the launch of the NDIS trial sites many of the initial concerns of carers and those associations which represent them are being addressed.
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10 reasons we need the NDIS
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a ground-breaking change to the way disability services are funded and delivered. Here are ten ways the NDIS will benefit all Australians.
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Inclusive Playgrounds: Everyone’s a player
Play is not just for fun. It’s also for learning, problem solving, motor skills and socialising. But it’s also fun just to play!
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Community rejects delay to NDIS
The media is reporting that National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Chairman Bruce Bonyhady will use today’s Press Club speech to justify a delay to the NDIS roll out.
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NDIS safe in Commonwealth Budget
In his first budget Prime Minister Tony Abbott has committed to deliver the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in full.
With this budget, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has become the custodian of the NDIS. He has given the NDIS the stamp of approval and committed to every Australian to roll it out in full.
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Every Australian Counts resists attack on NDIS
Every Australian Counts supporters reacted angrily today to media reports that the federal government may take a recommendation to COAG that will delay and apply funding caps to participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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Disability scheme supports everyone
“EVERY Australian counts” is the catchcry that has united the disability sector, galvanised the nation to support an increase in the Medicare levy and won multi-partisan political support for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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Groundhog day – NDIS costs old news
A report today in The Australian rehashes previously released figures on the ‘cost blowout’ in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Every Australian Counts Campaign Director, John Della Bosca, said: “Today’s report is old news; I remember addressing the media on these exact figures in November last year.
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NDIA review no excuse to deny people with disability a better future
A review released today raises doubts about the timeline currently in place to roll out the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
John Della Bosca, Every Australian Counts Campaign Director said: “I hope this report is not used by some commentators to argue delaying the NDIS. The scheme is already taking over seven years to rollout.
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