Australian Broadcasting Corporation

VIDEO: Questions raised about the management of disability support program

KIERA HANNIGAN: It just completely blew me out of the water. NAS CAMPANELLA, REPORTER: More than a billion dollars. GEOFFREY WATSON, SC, CENTRE FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: This is an avoidable conflict of ...
The Courier-Mail

Costly NDIS medical reports to prove disability scrapped in favour of interview with internal assessor

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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Program: Disability support providers struggling with an inefficient system and high turnover of workers

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The peak body for disability service organisations has released its latest Workforce Census Report, ...
SBS

Tim wants those who support him to be valued as much as those who care for others

Based on an entry level role, aged care workers can be paid 14 per cent more than disability support workers. The CEO of Spinal Life Australia said there needed to be measures to incentivise ...