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Chris McHugh, Executive General Manager with Suncorp

Reform catalyst for ‘wider change’

ONE of the nation’s biggest insurers has stepped up its calls for privatising billions of dollars in personal insurance schemes.

ANNABEL HEPWORTH

EXCLUSIVEHealth

Job ID PD390206. Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Scott Morrison during a media conference at Parliament House in Canberra. He spoke in reference to the Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014. Pic by Gary Ramage

Welfare blitz to fund NDIS

SCOTT Morrison has declared that savings will have to be made on welfare spending to ensure that the NDIS is delivered.

Dennis Shanahan and Political Editor

EXCLUSIVEHealth

12/03/2004: Liz Crowther of the Mental Illness Fellowship. Negative

Mental health costs at impasse

A STANDOFF over who will fund mental health support under the NDIS has emerged with people already missing out on services.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

Mal Brough at An announcement about a significant infrastructure development at Brisbane Airport Graham Quirk, Lord Mayor of Brisbane BAC Senior Management Local industry leaders Novotel Brisbane Airport, Skygate. Pic Annette Dew

Disability services axed

AN investigation into disability service cuts is needed amid reports of people losing help before they are covered by the NDIS.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

Senior woman sitting in wheelchair Picture: Supplied

NDIS struggling ‘to meet deadline’

THE agency in control of the NDIS is fast running out of time to make critical decisions about its future design, a major new report says.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

Mr Bruce Bonyhady AM, Chair of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Disability housing crisis

THE NDIS is using the former federal government’s failed rental affordability program as a model for its own housing project.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

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Warning over soft regulation for carers

THE agency responsible for the delivery of the NDIS has been pressured to relax strict care provider registration requirements.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEIndigenous

Aunty Gayle Rankine, chairperson of the First Peoples Disability Network at her home in Sth Plympton, Adelaide.

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.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEIndustrial Relations

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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.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

The State Government is introducing paid parking at the QEH, Ian Yates from COTA Seniors Voice says the elderly will be the most impacted.

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.

RICK MORTON

NDIS user Connor Fitzpatrick(16) and his mother Bree at their home in Cameron Park, NSW. Bree manages Connor's NDIS account on her own and has nothing but positives to say about the service. The Australian / Picture David Moir 28/11/2014

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.

RICK MORTON

Good idea, shame it doesn’t exist

Good idea, shame it doesn’t exist

AUSTRALIANS, particularly people in the disability community, should be angry.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

Senator Mitch Fifield in the Tabcorp marquee at Derby day at Flemington Racecourse.

$6bn hole in disability costings

THE National Disability Insurance Scheme has a $6 billion hole in its design.

RICK MORTON

Gary Newton and wife Annie at their home in Geelong Victoria. Gary is 62yo and had Polio as a child. He is one of the National Disability Insurance Scheme participants in Geelong trial.

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.

Exclusive Disability care has its ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ and as one family has discovered RICK MORTON

Laura Roadknight with son Jedd (3) AEIOU Foundation, Huntfield Heights Centre

NDIS ‘failing autistic children’

SEVERELY autistic children get less funding in trials of the National Disability Insurance Scheme than in previous arrangements.

Sarah Martin

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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.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

NDIS coverage still unclear: agency

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.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

Dale Mulligan, who is the first Australian with a disability to take Federal Court action to access the National Disability Insurance Scheme. He wants the NDIS to cover about $1100 for lawn-mowing on his Housing Department home in Newcastle. He has heart trouble and two ruptured discs in his back. Photograph by Jon Reid 17 August 2014

Lawyers called in over NDIS access

AUSTRALIANS with disabilities have begun suing the government to break into the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

JARED OWENS

EXCLUSIVEHealth

NDIS forerunner beset with ‘red tape’

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.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

Thinkstock image - Rear view of man in wheelchair

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.

RICK MORTON

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Bruce Bonyhady outside Yooralla in Melbourne. Bruce is president of Yooralla and the architect of the NDIS

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.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

Mr Bruce Bonyhady AM, Chair of 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.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

27.2.14 - Dignity4Disability MP Kelly Vincent at the Disability Debate in the Adelaide Town Hall. Picture Simon Cross Lee-Anne (0412053536)

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.

RICK MORTON

EXCLUSIVEHealth

Former Nationals Leader Tim Fischer speaking with Samantha Jenkinson and Craig Wallace at the Every Australian counts campaign for the National Disability Insurance Scheme event on the lawns in front of Parliament House in Canberra

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.

RICK MORTON

WA Premier Colin Barnett launches WA NDIS My Way campaign at Activ in Wembley.

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.

Nicolas Perpitch

PM Tony Abbot gets a hug from Simone Stevens from LEAD project at the official launch of the National Disability Insurance Agency Headquarters in Geelong.

Haste disables the NDIS rollout

LABOR didn’t heed the Productivity Commission’s rollout advice.

Sue O’Reilly

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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.

Rick Wallace

Official launch of the National Disability Insurance Agency Headquarters. PM Abbot and Premier Napthine at NDIS announcement in Geelong. Mr Abbot talks with Penny Dorgan NDIS regional support officer at the new NDIA headquarters.

Disability scheme promises honoured

THE Coalition has kept the NDIS funding and timeline as promised.

RICK MORTON

Mr Bruce Bonyhady AM, Chair of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

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.

Natasha Bita and PATRICIA KARVELAS

National Affairs

Rebecca Pizzilli with daughter Aurelia (22mths) who has Downs Syndrome at their home in Seaton. They have been part of the trial rollout of the NDIS in SA. TheyÕre part of an early intervention programme which the Commission of Audit is recommending be capped.

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.

Rachel Baxendale

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