‘I wasn’t there’: Life with dissociative identity disorder
For Ashley Curtis, life with dissociative identity disorder left him feeling like his world was shrinking. Then a…
Aged care tool under fire as man with late-stage MND loses appeal for higher funding
Melbourne man Graham Crossan, 80, relies on his wife Gaynor to help him eat, move and even breathe. …
More than 3 million Australians over 65 to pay more for private health
More than 3 million Australians aged over 65 will have to pay hundreds of dollars more for their…
Public hospitals wasting $1.2b a year and hindered by ‘bogus budgets’, Grattan Institute says
Public hospitals are wasting $1.2 billion a year on avoidable costs such as unnecessary procedures, according to a…
Anthony Albanese writes to states, telling them to rein in public hospital spending
The states and territories are on a collision course with the Commonwealth over public hospital funding, with health…
Riverina family grapples with daughter’s devastating childhood dementia diagnosis
When Rachel Anderson and Elijah Marshall noticed their daughter Hannah struggling to remember things she had just done,…
Fewer Aussies would need NDIS if government boosted mental health support, expert says
Threadbare mental health services are pushing thousands of Australians with mental illness onto the National Disability Insurance Scheme…
New NDIS price cap for ‘life-changing’ music and art therapy revealed after review
Music and art therapists will be able to bill National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants at the same…
The future is uncertain for South Australia’s major disability employment provider. What does it mean for those it supports?
Twenty years ago, the Clarke family took their son Ryan along to his first day of work. “We…
SA disability employment provider Bedford hopes for government funding lifeline
Disability employment provider Bedford is hoping the federal government will throw it a financial lifeline to avoid the…