NDIS says no to giving Finley new voice
Thousands of claims just like Finley Coll’s are being fought in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal by people with a disability. There can be ‘long, crazy process’ before that happens.
Disability
NDIS spends $1bn-plus on fees for middlemen managers
Billions of dollars a year in NDIS funding is being soaked up by middlemen plan managers and support co-ordinators who are arguably no longer necessary and drain taxpayer funds that should be spent directly on people with disabilities.
Mikaela is exactly who the NDIS should be supporting. So why has it left her ‘stranded’?
Sixteen-year-old Mikaela Williams has quadriplegia. But the effort of learning to get on her feet and scoot around with assistance in a walker is nothing compared to navigating the NDIS.
They were told their baby would die before she turned three. How did she defy the odds?
Diagnosed with a life limiting illness at five months, doctors told Jess Schonberger’s parents their first-born would not see her third birthday. What happened next has astounded everyone.
‘How can we take care of our patients, if we don’t care for each other?’
He was left a quadriplegic after a car accident 14 years ago. But Dinesh Palipana defied the odds to become an emergency room doctor. Now, he’s taking aim at a medical fraternity that needs to do more to protect the next generation.
Albanese facing a pay-grab stampede
Nearly 300,000 disability workers will demand taxpayers fund an above-inflation pay rise in the wake of $15bn in wage increases given to childcare and aged-care staff.
One in five of us live with disability, it’s time we are seen by brands
When I turned on the TV, the radio or read the newspaper growing up, I never saw or heard anybody like me. But with help of industry, creatives, consumers and the wider public, things are changing. Slowly, but they are.
‘Being a parent was never really on the cards. Until it was’
Parents who live with disability share their fears, challenges and triumphs.
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