People With Disability

Planned cuts to NDIS community participation budgets could leave participants in unsafe environments, including increasing their risk of domestic violence, advocates have warned.

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Exhausted families could be plunged further into crisis and have greater interaction with child protection services under the proposed overhaul of the NDIS, advocates say.

Politicians are presiding over three days of public hearings into a bill paving the way for the biggest ever cuts to the NDIS. 

The agency has spent millions on lawyers to fight participants appealing its decisions. Meanwhile, public hearings are due to begin this week into the government's proposal to slash NDIS funding. 

The federal government has been accused of selling its cuts to the NDIS as a crackdown on fraud, while instead pursuing billions of dollars of dramatic savings by slashing participant packages.

Repeat child sex offender Cameron Bloomfield was crowned as Victoria's "disability pride champion" in 2024, after a government department admin error.

People with intellectual disability are twice as likely to suffer a preventable death than the rest of the population. 

Sam Stubbs’s parents were asked about his quality of life while treating him for a lung infection. They realised it was because he was born with Down syndrome. 

Sarah Taylor is one of approximately 1,200 Australians urgently waiting for a life-saving stem cell transplant. Advocates say Australia's registry is "ridiculously small" compared to other nations, leading to potentially fatal consequences. 

Vanessa was forced to regularly skip sport because of her period. New research shows that more than 60 per cent of disabled athletes have done the same.

After years spent modifying their Shoalhaven property to accommodate their son's special care needs, the Taylors fear noise, lights and disruption from a major road project could affect his health.

The WA government has committed $16 million for a professional learning hub that will include mandatory inductions for special needs education assistants and disability modules for graduate teachers.

Macleay Island residents say the community has a "very high percentage" of people who are elderly and have a disability, who would benefit from a bus service.

Judith Geppert has an impressive resume of achievements and celebrations, but her capabilities are often questioned. Her dog Teddy, however, never treated her any differently.   

A raft of alarming evidence has been aired at a parliamentary hearing into the integrity of the NDIS, with calls for the government to strengthen whistleblower protections.

A 70-year-old appointed homesharer faces court charged with 264 fraud offences after allegedly accessing the bank account of an intellectually disabled man who was living with him and spending over $54,000.

A former NSW Labor powerbroker and state disability minister pivotal in advocating for the establishment of the NDIS has warned against rushing through sweeping changes to the scheme.

It's a stormy February night in Adelaide, and Jacqueline Tedmanson is at the hospital with her partner Jackson, waiting to meet their first baby.

The states are once again on the hook for disability services due to the Commonwealth's drastic NDIS cuts. Can the mistakes of the past be avoided?