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Outgoing NDIS Minister Bill Shorten believes the scheme will be safe with the Coalition.

‘No longer a problem child’: Shorten says he’s shored up NDIS beyond election

The outgoing minister has delivered parting words designed to defuse a political fight over the $47 billion program ahead of the federal election.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Every day, Jack dreads the phone call that could strip him of his new life

The first time I met Jack, he was asleep on a bench behind a train station. After three years of therapy, he now lives in his own unit and is tending his vegetable patch.

  • Muriel Cummins
Labor is spending $1 billion more on the NDIS

NDIS gets $1b injection to slow growth even as budget slides into deficit

New ways of assessing people for NDIS support will add to a series of changes that are slowing growth of the $47 billion scheme but also revoking people’s plans at higher rates.

  • David Crowe and Natassia Chrysanthos
Gemma Ryan, with her son Max, and Winnie Choy, a registered music therapist, campaigned against the funding cuts.

Families to keep music and art therapy funding as Shorten pauses cuts

The saga shows the sensitivity at play as the government introduces a raft of changes to bring down spending on one of its biggest expenses, forecast to cost $93 billion by 2033-34.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

‘Women are putting male escorts on retainers’: Why more women are paying for sex

Historically, male escorts, particularly those who service women clients, have not been particularly visible. That’s slowly changing.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Over Our Dead Body co-founder Alex Lahey with musician Eliza Hull, who has curated a gig celebrating artists with disabilities.

Archie Roach didn’t get the chance. Now, music legends will perform on all levels

Part of Richmond’s Bakehouse Studios was inaccessible to Uncle Archie Roach before his final tour. Now a group of artists with disabilities is performing there.

  • Cassandra Morgan
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Assemblies, excursions and other events will resume in WA's 800 schools.

Record number of children restrained, secluded in state schools

Almost 2700 students were restrained or secluded in Victorian state schools in 2023, a 46 per cent rise that experts say is deeply concerning.

  • Caroline Schelle
Music therapy is essential for Max Luehrssen-Ryan’s development, but NDIS funding for his sessions will be cut dramatically.

This therapy is helping Max walk. Its funding is about to be cut

The federal government’s proposed changes to NDIS funding for art and music therapy have left parents furious and others questioning efforts to rein in the $42 billion scheme.

  • Angus Thomson and Natassia Chrysanthos
Former genU IT operations manager Sy Giang Nguyen (middle row, third from right) in a past photo with the Geelong team.

Cats donors accused of $14.5m fraud against NDIS provider have assets frozen

A former IT manager is accused in court papers of helping orchestrate a huge fraud. Two days after his arrest, he was tossing the coin before an AFL game.

  • Cameron Houston
“It was completely random,” Kureishi says of the fall that left him tetraplegic. “I wasn’t even drunk. You have no agency. That’s what’s so shocking about all this.”

‘The worst thing is losing your hands’: Hanif Kureishi on life as a tetraplegic

The British Pakistani author shares how his world has changed since the accident that left him paralysed below the neck.

  • Mick Brown

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