CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 28-- The Australian Department of Social Services' Minister for Families and Social Services, Paul Fletcher, issued the following news release: National Disability Insurance ...

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The agency has spent millions on lawyers to fight participants appealing its decisions. Meanwhile, public hearings are due to ...

Labor’s contentious NDIS overhaul has met pushback from the government’s own disability advisory group, while the Coalition has issued an ultimatum in exchange for its support.

Toni Mitchell's 21-year-old son, Joshy, lives with Down syndrome, autism, hearing and vision impairments and organ failures, as well as early onset dementia. The NDIA says funding packages have ...

At the moment participants who seek funds need to prove they have a disability in order to get support. Often that comes in the guise of expensive medical reports from GPs, specialists or allied ...

A Sunshine Coast Paralympic star has berated her experience after appearing at a federal government Senate inquiry into ...

Labor has described the leaked strategy as evidence the government is attempting to “steamroll through controversial ...