Indigenous waiting for NDIS
MOST indigenous people who have received a funding package under the NDIS trial in the NT are still waiting for services.
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Secret talks on NDIS reform
UNIONS and employers are in secret talks with the Fair Work Commission about controversial changes to NDIS workplace laws.
Battle looms on insurance shortfall
ANY move to plug a $6bn NDIS with money from the aged-care system would be fought “without relief” by the sector, experts say.
An ability to manage the future
BREE Fitzpatrick is a small businesswoman with a difference: the only enterprise in her home is keeping her son Connor in care.
Good idea, shame it doesn’t exist
AUSTRALIANS, particularly people in the disability community, should be angry.
$6bn hole in disability costings
THE National Disability Insurance Scheme has a $6 billion hole in its design.
Full quid a matter of timing and luck
WHEN Gary Newton signed up for the National Disability Insurance Scheme a staff member gave him some advice: get in quick.
NDIS ‘failing autistic children’
SEVERELY autistic children get less funding in trials of the National Disability Insurance Scheme than in previous arrangements.
Calls to give NDIS spending buffer
THE national disability insurance scheme would become unsustainable if it expands faster than the market meant to service it.
NDIS coverage still unclear: agency
THE number of people with severe and episodic mental health problems who could be captured by the NDIS remains unknown.
Lawyers called in over NDIS access
AUSTRALIANS with disabilities have begun suing the government to break into the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
NDIS forerunner beset with ‘red tape’
A NSW scheme for victims of motor vehicle accidents has spent less than 3pc of its funding on actual victims.
Fears NDIS blind to remote reality
THE agency responsible for the NDIS has been criticised for dragging the chain on involving Aboriginal Australians in the rollout.
NDIS chief calls for slow phase-in
THE Abbott government will consider slowing the rate at which new users come into the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
NDIS likely to be delayed
NDIS chairman Bruce Bonyhady will drop the biggest hint yet that the $22 billion program could be delayed.
Disabled ‘need say’ in NDIS
AUSTRALIA’S only politician who uses a wheelchair has written to the NDIS urging the board to listen more carefully to people with disabilities.
NDIS ‘letting disabled down’
THE NDIS is bogged down in bureaucracy and inconsistencies, and is “the same old system”, according to a warning letter to its managers.
Trials will go head-to-head in west
A WA trial of the National Disability Insurance Scheme will operate in competition with a federal model to determine which works.
Haste disables the NDIS rollout
LABOR didn’t heed the Productivity Commission’s rollout advice.
Alarm sounded on NDIS rollout
GOVERNMENTS and the disability service sector were ill-prepared for the radical shift to a NDIS and urgent work was needed, says an expert.
Disability scheme promises honoured
THE Coalition has kept the NDIS funding and timeline as promised.
NDIS delay ‘only way to save costs’
DISABLED Australians face years of delays in getting taxpayer-funded care after the NDIA admitted its deadline could blow out costs.
Mother sees merit in slower rollout
REBECCA Richardson sees some merit in delaying the NDIS’s rollout if it means others don’t have to experience the same inefficiencies she has.
NDIS poses ‘big financial risks’
THE National Disability Insurance Scheme’s rollout must be delayed by up to three years, according to the Commission of Audit.
Cost cap urged for ‘flawed’ NDIS
THE Coalition’s Commission of Audit will today recommend the Abbott government cap the cost of the national disability insurance scheme.
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