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Symptoms and impacts may fluctuate and it can be difficult to show you’ve tried other treatments.
Reform needs to be careful. Simply shutting down existing workplaces could leave some disabled workers worse off.
The government wants to make these short-term cuts to shore up the budget bottom line. But there’s a fairer way to repair the NDIS.
The way the NDIS was designed and rolled out left important gaps in preventing fraud. A new parliamentary report outlines some fixes – but even more can be done.
Women are already less likely to access the NDIS for their disabilities than men and more likely to be carers.
A lot has to go right for the $37.8 billion in NDIS savings to be delivered without leaving disabled people to fall through the cracks.
The government has introduced legislation that tightens key definitions and make it harder for participants to access the scheme.
Some participants will start to see changes from July. Here’s what to expect.
Could these actions secure the scheme for the future? Or might they create new barriers for the very people the NDIS was designed to empower?
Many of the issues disabled people encounter in society will result from political decision making.
A new Grattan Institute report shows how Australia can build a national system of psychosocial supports within five years without spending any more money.
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Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW
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Senior Associate, Disability Program, Grattan Institute
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Associate, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Politics, UNSW
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PhD Candidate, School of Business, Canberra, UNSW
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Research Associate, School of Business, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Psychology, Deakin University
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Professor, Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living Research Centre and Occupational Therapy Department, School of Primary and Allied Healthcare, Monash University
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Associate, Disability Program, Grattan Institute
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Affiliate Researcher, Political & International Studies, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor, Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Research Centre, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Wollongong