Put disabled in control to reduce the NDIS burden
The NDIS has been plagued by soaring costs and systemic inefficiencies, raising serious concerns about its integrity and impact on government finances while jeopardising public support.
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Jones fourth Labor minister to quit
Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has become the latest of a growing number of government ministers to quit politics, the 60-year-old making a shock announcement on Thursday.
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.
Carer’s record fine after choking death
An NDIS provider has been hit with the highest-ever civil penalty by the Federal Court against a provider after a man choked to death.
Wells promoted to cabinet in Labor reshuffle
Aged Care Minister Anika Wells has been promoted to cabinet as part of a ministerial reshuffle, which has seen Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth allocated the critical NDIS portfolio.
Shorten makes shock decision on resignation
The NDIS minister will leave parliament weeks earlier than expected, raising expectations the Prime Minister will move for a quick cabinet reshuffle.
Boost for autistic in $42m package
Autistic Australians have some of the poorest life outcomes. This plan is designed to change that.
‘Infighting thwarts hospital access’: AMA
Doctors warn state and federal health ministers must share responsibility for aged care and NDIS to keep the nation from getting sicker.
Safe Haven: the foundation giving hope to Aussies with psychosocial disabilities
The Haven model has proved not only life-changing for residents with complex mental health conditions, it also results in efficiencies for the NDIS and the health system as a whole.
NDIS prices threaten provider exodus
The number of disability providers considering exiting the market has more than doubled in the past year as just 13 per cent of operators were able to break even.
NDIS turmoil: eligibility proof demand surges
Thousands of NDIS participants have been booted off the scheme after a flurry of letters from agency to re-prove their eligibility.
ADHD kids treated as ‘poor cousins’ of those with autism
Parents of children with ADHD who have needs similar to children diagnosed with autism can feel rightly aggrieved about how the NDIS has operated to date.
ADHD and autism overlap – so why has the NDIS favoured one over the other?
Your child’s ADHD may be just as debilitating as your neighbour’s kid’s autism. A new study finds both conditions are on the same neurodevelopmental continuum. So why have their supports been funded by NDIS and yours haven’t?
Shorten: NDIS ‘showing signs of blooming’ despite rising costs
NDIS expenses were $150m below expectations in the September quarter, despite the number of participants with approved plans increasing to more than 680,000 and payments costing taxpayers $11.5bn.
NDIS saving spent on HECS
After making a good start in trying to rein in NDIS spending, the Albanese government has squandered its new-found fiscal prudence with an unjustifiable multibillion-dollar giveaway for student debt relief.
The cruel consequences of a mismanaged NDIS
When I read Bill Shorten’s comments that he was ‘extremely proud’ that $1bn has been shaved from the NDIS as a result of reforms that rein in spending, I felt sick.
$1bn shaved from NDIS: Shorten puts scheme back on track
Reforms to the NDIS will save more than $1bn from the growing cost of the ballooning scheme, according to new official projections that promise to deliver critical structural savings to the federal budget.
The doomed conceit of a political AUKUS
AUKUS will not be defeated by its lack of any plausible policy foundation, its unsupported intelligence pronouncements, or the absence of any implementation plan. It will be defeated by its unachievability, as much in Britain and the US as in Australia.
Business margins under pressure, but NDIS firms are scoring big
Cost are rising for most firms but there is a boom area, supplying services to NDIS, whose budget is set to blow out by $8.8bn to $50bn annually by 2025-26.
State and feds at loggerheads over stumping up for NDIS bill
The dispute comes amid protracted negotiations over the future of NDIS funding, with the scheme forecast to grow beyond $120bn a year in the next decade without reforms.
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