For families relying on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the Government’s promise of reform should have been a beacon of hope. Instead, it has twisted into a source of confusion and financial stress.
Michelle Oliver
An NDIS provider will pay a million-dollar fine for multiple failures that led to an at-risk man dying after choking on a toasted sandwich.
Miklos Bolza
People living with a disability are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to access the NDIS in some cases, with one Perth man concerned the high cost of assessments is a barrier to critical support.
Danielle Le Messurier
Bill Shorten is confident he will leave Parliament having set the NDIS up for a stable future as the scheme achieves a key milestone he promised in 2022.
Katina Curtis
A man paralysed by polio who ‘personally selected’ young female carers using NDIS funding and then sexually assaulted them has narrowly avoided jail.
Rachel Fenner
The new chief of WA human services provider PeopleKind wants to hit the ground running by engaging with State and Federal Governments to smooth out the ‘rough edges’ of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Cheyanne Enciso
The NDIS will be overhauled to contain spiralling costs after Labor and the Coalition defied last-minute lobbying from furious disability advocates to pass the biggest changes in the scheme’s history.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Taxpayers are right to question why the cost of the NDIS has been allowed to balloon to $42 billion per year.
Imagine you were dictator for a day, able to do anything at the snap of your fingers because there was nobody to oppose you.
Ben Harvey
The grieving mother of a disabled man who died at Perth Underground train station last year believes her son would still be alive if NDIS funding had been provided.
A Great Southern community will be used to pilot a new method for delivering the NDIS in regional and remote communities.
WA’s Education Minister announced an education law review and immediate backup for teachers coping with ‘complex behaviours’, apologising to students with disabilities for ‘letting them down’.
Samantha Hunter
A clutch of essential disability not-for-profit organisations are staring at oblivion as governments slash funding before the new system is agreed upon and in place.
Alan Langford
The way the National Disability Scheme is being rorted is a national disgrace. And it has to stop. But ensuring that happens is an enormous task.
Mark Riley
Clearing the rorters and criminals out of the NDIS might take two or three years, the minister warned after revelations that it had been used to funnel money into illicit drugs, luxury cars and holidays.
Katina Curtis and Jessica Evensen
Disability advocates have slammed proposed cuts and changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which they say will rob the community of their choices.
Gabrielle Becerra Mellet
Psychopathic sexual predator Wayne Wilmot does not want to be included in society. So why should Australians be paying for to receive support from a system which was set up to help our most vulnerable?
Sex assault squad detectives have charged a 27-year-old aged-care worker with indecent assault at a facility in Perth’s western suburbs.
Lauren Price
We need the NDIS to be more about people and less about bureaucracy. In short, to make the NDIS human. My dream is that people with disability can share the Aussie dream of a fair go.
Bill Shorten
Australians with autism could be removed from having access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme with resources to go to ‘those who most need support’, says Labor frontbencher Murray Watt.
Kimberley Caines
Plans to urgently fix the NDIS are in turmoil after State treasurers refused to even consider major reforms unless the Federal Government agreed to permanently extend GST top-up payments.
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Josh Zimmerman
Bill Shorten says governments would be betraying people with a disability if urgent action wasn’t taken to mend NDIS, as the imminent release of a landmark review threatens to ignite a new funding row.
Some things in life are worth fighting for and I believe the National Disability Insurance Scheme is worth doing everything we can to ensure it is there for future generations of Australians.
A major shift in how National Disability Insurance Scheme participants are assessed for taxpayer funding will be recommended as part a bold vision to repair a ‘broken’ system.
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