The Australian Industry Group and NDIS providers are attacking hard-won penalty rates of disability support workers. [Photo: Facebook/People with Disability Australia] In late 2023, the big business ...

Providers report a median operating loss of nearly 4% in the last financial year – with losses totalling about 12% over five years ...

This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. He’s only just learned to walk, but two-year-old Luca is already kicking a ball like a pro. Born in Australia, this is home for him. Luca’s mom, ...

Labor says it is on track to deliver “foundational supports” — which will include specialised services to care for people with disabilities like mild autism spectrum disorder — in the second half of ...

Parents of persons with Down syndrome are pressed to procure abortion, and their healthcare is negatively affected throughout their life, Australia's disability royal commission has heard. The Royal ...

Twenty years ago, the Clarke family took their son Ryan along to his first day of work. "We were probably more nervous than him," Ryan's dad, Gerry Clarke, said. "Ryan adapts well to most things. He ...

John Gilroy is the founding chairperson of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Research Network. He is an author of the National Audit of Disability Research published in ...

The nation’s peak disability body is launching a campaign in marginal seats ahead of the election demanding the next prime minister reverse Anthony Albanese’s decision to absorb the NDIS portfolio ...

Australian officials are abusing prisoners with disabilities, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities are at especially high risk, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website ...

In 2012, the deeply unpopular federal Labor government, facing a landslide defeat in elections due the following year, launched the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and made it a central ...