Government advisory group recommends delaying NDIS ‘robo-planning’ changes
The federal government has been urged by its own National Disability Insurance Scheme advisory group to delay the…
How living with a disability in regional Australia poses extra challenges
Grace fell yesterday. As she fell, she hit her hand on a cupboard and tore skin off the…
Advocates fear My Aged Care funding algorithm could become Australia’s next robodebt
Each morning Gaynor Crossan lovingly prepares her husband of 57 years for the day ahead. It’s a complicated…
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…
Australia’s real economic challenge isn’t welfare dependency — it’s inequality
Economic inequality in Australia is the worst it has been in 20 years — if the goal is…
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…