Beware new boom fallout
Jobs and costs will soar in the disability sector.
NDIS
Wishlist to blow hole in NDIS
Demands by the Health Services Union would ‘have significant implications for the costs’ of the NDIS.
‘Tighten entry or watch it fail’
Eligibility rules for the $22bn NDIS must be greatly tightened to ensure its long-term viability, stakeholders have warned.
NDIS link worries crossbench
There are new signs the government’s omnibus bill is in trouble amid concerns over its links to the NDIS.
Errors on NDIS access in focus
The former Labor government may have erred in its decision to significantly expand the NDIS.
NDIS ‘has been a saviour’
Kirby Littley’s outlook changed when she got on a trial of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
‘Move NDIS youth from aged care’
The mission to find about 2000 youth left in aged-care homes and transfer them to the NDIS this year ‘will fail’.
Xenophon’s Medicare tax rate
Nick Xenophon says his proposal for Medicare levy hike to fund NDIS would hit only middle, high income families up to $600 a year.
Xenophon levy plan to hit families
Nick Xenophon’s call for a lift in the Medicare levy to fill the NDIS gap would cost families up to $2600 a year.
Huge surge in NDIS costs
The annual cost of the NDIS will jump to $32bn at the end of the first decade after it becomes fully operational.
Morrison pressures on savings
Scott Morrison is pressuring the Senate to pass the government’s omnibus savings bill.
Push to keep infrastructure fund
Senior academics strongly oppose the idea of tipping the Education Investment Fund into the NDIS.
Ex-chief scientist slams plan
The former chief scientist has lashed out at a plan to shift a $3.7bn fund for uni infrastructure to help pay for the NDIS.
PM’s agenda hits another hurdle
Malcolm Turnbull faces an unexpected $3.7bn hole in funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
NDIS board ‘has broader skills’
The seven new board members for the NDIS have a “broader set of skills” than the previous team, Christian Porter says.
Scheme slammed for ‘secrecy’
The body charged with delivering a ‘state-run’ version of the $22bn NDIS has been slammed by an inquiry.
Mentally ill lose NDIS cover
Government modelling shows more than 100,000 severely mentally ill people will not be included in the $22bn NDIS.
State quits the ‘national’ NDIS
The West Australian government will go its own way with a state version of the national disability insurance scheme.
NDIS support funding ‘limited’
NDIS lawyers say it is possible for people owed ‘reasonable and necessary’ support to get no money at all.
NDIS funding tested in court
The ‘opacity’ of its funding decisions is being challenged in a key case that could have significant implications.
Autism headache for NDIS
The number of children with autism has jumped almost 10 per cent in the past year, adding to a surge of diagnoses.
Global firm prepares to fix NDIS
A major global company is in talks with the $22bn National Disability Insurance Scheme to move into the market.
Thousands ‘miss out over NDIS’
Thousands of people with profound disabilities who should have gained access to the $22bn NDIS have been “lost”.
‘Loss of control’ amid rollout
A report could reignite a battle for control of the NDIS between federal and state governments.
‘Disabled people need NDIS’
Disability advocates in WA warn they could end up with the worst disability funding system in Australia.
1000 miss NDIS funding
More than 1000 Victorians will miss NDIS support plans because the state government has missed critical milestones.
States deserted NDIS head
Queensland was the only state that proposed retaining the chairman of the NDIS, although Victoria later backed him.
NDIS boss first to go
The purge of management at the NDIS has begun following years of blunders and scandals.
2000 sufferers shut out of NDIS
As many as 2000 people with serious mental health conditions and disabilities were shut-out of the NDIS in the ACT.
Uniform autism diagnosis push
Autism diagnoses will be subject to the first nationally consistent set of standards, experts say.
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