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Disability organisations rally against proposal to introduce independent assessments
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More than 20 disability organisations have called on the federal government to abandon a plan which they say will force people to explain their support needs to a stranger in less than three hours, or risk losing their NDIS funding.
The Adventures Of The Boy Who Was Told He’d Never Speak
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For Year 7, I started at a little school in the NSW outback with an enrolment of 150 students from K-12. At first, there were no problems, then things started to go wrong, writes William McIntosh.
Content note: Descriptions of bullying, ableism and a mention of suicide.
They’re Denying Us A Basic Human Right, And That Will Never Be Okay
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The politics of distraction…
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We’ve all been worried for a while now about what changes were going to be made this year to the legislation that governs the NDIS.
Well yesterday the Minister for the NDIS Stuart Robert gave an interview on talkback radio in Sydney – and let slip some of what he has planned.
And in the process pretty much confirmed what we were all so worried about.
People with disabilities at risk of being wrongly deemed ‘incompetent’ by health system
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