With the Federal Election on 21 May 2022, candidates have been out making promises, promises to voters. Here is a comparison of the disability announcements
Introduction On 30 March 2022, the Australian Parliament (finally!) passed the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Measures) Bill 2021 (Bill) to amend
Introduction On 30 March 2022, the Australian Parliament passed the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Measures) Bill 2021 (Bill) to amend the National
That sinking feeling! After weeks of waiting and navigating NDIS bureaucracy, you have finally received your internal review decision from the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA).
What is internal review? Internal review is a process whereby someone in the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) with appropriate delegated authority, and who was not involved
Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (the Disability Royal Commission) The Disability Royal Commission was established in April 2019 in response
What happens if I am in the NDIS and then turn 65 years? You stay in the NDIS. That is, if you become a ‘participant’
What is a ‘NDIS Appeal’? Let me clarify at the outset that the key NDIS legislation does not use the term ‘appeal’. Instead, it refers
Aaagh! The NDIS has got it wrong! Disappointed that the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has rejected your family member’s application to access the NDIS?
Conciliation of discrimination complaints My recent article ‘Ouch! Disability discrimination hurts. How does the law protect us?, described Australia’s discrimination laws and the process for
Before you make a disability discrimination complaint My previous article, ‘Ouch! Discrimination Hurts. How Does the Law Protect Us’ looked at how discrimination is prohibited
The impact of disability discrimination Ouch! Being treated differently because of disability can hurt the person with disability and their family members, friends and others
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