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Neo-nazis outside a queer film festival in Albury last year

‘Very real risk of violence’: The growing fear within NSW’s LGBTQ community

Threats and attacks against LGBTQI+ organisations, including a neo-Nazi rally outside a queer film festival, have elevated leaders’ fears of violence.

  • Michael McGowan

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Declan Lee

People with disabilities ‘let down’ by hospital experience

It is concerning that advocates have been requesting a meeting with the NSW Health Minister since October to discuss solutions.

  • The Herald's View
Declan Lee, from Sydney’s northern beaches, was left on a hospital bathroom floor for several hours because staff were unable to lift him.

On the floor of a Sydney hospital bathroom, Declan lay stranded for hours

Advocates have requested an urgent meeting with the NSW health minister after hearing dozens of hospital horror stories.

  • Angus Thomson
Fairfield resident Julie Dempsey says physical restraint and seclusion as a mental health patient left her feeling broken.

‘You feel like an animal in a zoo’: Hospitals on notice amid ‘concerning’ trend

The mental health watchdog says its findings on restrictive practices should be a wake-up call for emergency departments, medical wards and inpatient facilities.

  • Broede Carmody
Bill Shorten will leave politics on Monday.

The NDIS is Shorten’s legacy, and Labor’s problem

The NDIS may be one of modern Labor’s biggest reforms, but the unwieldy scheme has come at a big cost politicians will spend years wrangling.

  • The Herald's View
Bill Shorten will leave politics on Monday.

More than half a million workers earn income from NDIS, Shorten says in parting shot at critics

Bill Shorten has hailed the NDIS jobs boom as an achievement as big as Medicare. But economists say it might be a drain on the economy and the federal budget.

  • Paul Sakkal
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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

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

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