Opinion 18 May 2022
Photo from 2012 showing Labor leaders Julia Gillard and Jenny Macklin smiling with Every Australian Counts supporters Lynne Foreman, Kylie Fisher and Jacqui Pierce.

Explainer: What were the original intentions of the National Disability Insurance Scheme?

One of the things people with disability and families have been asking their federal election candidates to reflect on this year is a promise to bring the NDIS back on track with it’s original intentions. To look at why we all fought so hard for the NDIS in the first place. What were the ideas, intentions and principles behind the idea for an NDIS? Our friends from PIAC have written a new helpful explainer…

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Opinion 27 August 2021
Two young women with intellectual disabilities smiling, sitting on office chairs by a table with butchers paper, sharpies and sticky notes.

Support for decision making and the NDIS

The NDIA have just given everyone an extra two weeks to tell them what they think about support for decision making in the NDIS. We asked our friend Catherine McAlpine from Inclusion Australia to tell us what people with intellectual disability and their families think needs to change, and what Inclusion Australia is already working on.

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News 29 July 2020
A photo of the National Disability Strategy. It has a blue and white cover with six ribbons of colour flowing across the front. The title reads "2010 - 2020 National Disability Strategy An initiative of the Council of Australian Governments"

Get out your butcher’s paper and sticky notes – it’s consultation time!

Who remembers this?

The National Disability Strategy was a ten-year plan that came out in 2010.

It was the first time all levels of Australian governments had come together to make a plan like this for ALL people with disability, ALL over Australia.

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