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NDIS Rollout Too Short for Small Service NFPs

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 28th January 2016 -

Many small community based disability organisations offering high quality support networks to local families will struggle to reinvent themselves within the National Disability

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Disability Sector Confident, but Still Concerned

Xavier Smerdon, Monday, 25th January 2016 - A report investigating the confidence of the disability services sector ahead of the full roll-out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme has shown that 70 per cent of organisations…

Students With Disability Neglected by Education System – Senate

Xavier Smerdon, Friday, 15th January 2016 - Australia’s education system is failing students with disability, directly setting them up for a life of “diminished capacity”, according to a senate report.…

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Fighting for First Australians

Xavier Smerdon, Monday, 11th January 2016 - Damian Griffis has spent his life representing some of Australia’s most disadvantaged people – indigenous Australians with disability. Griffis is …

Investigating Disability Access to Video on Demand

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 7th January 2016 - Not for Profit advocacy group, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, is funding research into the accessibility of video on demand sites, including Netflix and…

Video Shows a Day in the Life of a Person with Disability

Xavier Smerdon, Thursday, 7th January 2016 - Former disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes has given an insight into the challenges people with disability face in their day-to-day life. Innes, who is blind,…

NDIS to Create Thousands of Jobs

Xavier Smerdon, Monday, 4th January 2016 - The rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in South Australia will create more than 6000 jobs, according to the state’s Premier Jay Weatherill. Weatherill said…

2015 – A Year of Change for the Social Sector

Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 22nd December 2015 - From the debate around charity mergers, to continuing questions about the government’s plans for the national charity regulator, the social sector has never been far away…

National Disability Scheme Looking Forward

Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 22nd December 2015 - The National Disability Insurance Agency has called on people with disability to speak up about what they want from the $22 billion disability insurance scheme. In its annual review,…

Workers with Disability Win Pay Fight Against Government

Xavier Smerdon, Monday, 21st December 2015 - The Federal Government has settled a long-standing feud between disabled employees who were paid as little as $1 an hour, agreeing to back pay them 70 per cent of the money they…

Disability Toy Campaign Gains Support

Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 15th December 2015 - A campaign to get toy manufacturer Lego to create a line of their famous characters featuring people with disability has gone viral online. Rebecca Atkinson, a UK journalist and co-founder…

Disability Workers Protest NDIS Privatisation

Xavier Smerdon, Monday, 14th December 2015 - Disability Workers in Victoria will rally against the State Government’s plans to potentially privatise the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The Health and Community…

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