Reform of the NDIS is focused on slowing growth, but neglecting one of the biggest pressure points. Without proper psychosocial supports outside the scheme, unmet need will keep driving costs and harm ...

Although the NDIS Review set out a five-year timeframe for reform, many of the items within this bill are needed to modify the NDIS Act and to allow for those changes to take place. One big motivator ...

Many Australians with disability feel on the edge of a precipice right now. Recommendations from the disability royal commission and the NDIS review were released late last year. Now a draft NDIS ...

National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Minister Bill Shorten joined hands with far-right One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson last week to launch an aggressive campaign to push through deep ...

Helen Dickinson receives funding from ARC, NHMRC and CYDA. NDIS Minister Bill Shorten yesterday announced a “reboot” of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme and six major areas of reform.

What a difference a few years makes. In 2021, the disability community rejoiced when independent assessments — a controversial set of reforms spearheaded by the Coalition — were declared "dead". Labor ...

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is undergoing another round of major reforms. One key change relates to the funding periods in which participants are allowed to spend their budgets.

That the government found this action necessary came as no surprise. Across the community the question was being asked: How did we end up in a situation where 40 per cent of all NDIS participants – ...

In an extraordinary announcement at the LNP’s state council on Sunday, Mr Crisafulli will publicly reject the federal government’s hospital funding proposal. The offer to add $20bn over five years to ...

UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Since the review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) released its recommendations in December, there has been a series ...