Australians with motor neurone disease fear losing priority pathway under NDIS reforms
Australians with motor neurone disease (MND) who have rapidly changing needs fear they will lose a priority pathway…
Billions of NDIS funds lost to ‘integrity leakage’ last year, executive tells parliamentary hearing
About $3.7 billion of National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) money was handed out inappropriately last financial year, and…
Christopher Joye slams Australia’s shift from ‘lucky’ to ‘lazy’
One of the nation’s leading finance minds lamented how Australia has gone from the lucky country to “lazy…
Disability agency adds nearly 2,000 new employees while trying to rein in costs
The agency that runs the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has defended hiring nearly 2,000 new employees last…
Unscrupulous NDIS providers using inducements to recruit remote NT participants
People with disabilities in remote Northern Territory communities are being targeted by unscrupulous NDIS providers using high-pressure sales…
OECD boss Mathias Cormann warns Labor not to abandon ‘fiscal rules’, sounds alarm over mounting debt
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Secretary-General Mathias Cormann has warned the Albanese government not to abandon “fiscal…
Defunct NDIS provider given record $2.2 million penalty after Queensland man fatally hit by car
A record fine has been handed to an NDIS provider that failed to supervise a participant living with…
Tourette syndrome advocates take their voices to parliament
Jazmin Edson was sitting in her year 12 English class in February 2021 when she started to experience…
Health minister expects blindsided states to match $2 billion funding pledge for Thriving Kids
The federal health minister expects the states and territories to match his $2 billion funding pledge aimed at…