Around 4.5 million Australians live with disability but less than 13% of them are covered by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Getting into the scheme is one thing. But many NDIS ...

A year after a controversial NDIS change, advocates are growing increasingly concerned that "counterintuitive" and ...

The interim report of the Australian Labor government’s cost-cutting review into the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was released last Friday. It provides no details whatsoever of how the ...

Grattan Institute's Disability Program has support from the Summer Foundation. Australia is spending more than ever on disability services – and yet many people with disability still aren’t receiving ...

Josh Evans, who uses a wheelchair, had to turn down his dream job because he had no independent transport. Mr Evans sought NDIS funding for a specially-modified vehicle, but was turned down. Josh ...

Helen Dickinson receives funding from ARC, NHMRC and CYDA. Dennis Petrie has received research funding from NDIA, NHMRC, ARC, MRFF, Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, Victorian ...

A week after this masthead revealed Leo Hall’s plight, the NDIS Minister has promised to escalate the case. The eight year old, who was born with no eyes, and tiny eye sockets, needs on average two ...

Leo Hall, 8, who was born with no eyes and eye sockets smaller than the size of a grain of rice, has been receiving NDIS funding for prosthetics since he was five-years-old. They play a vital role in ...

A four-year-old girl died alone and in a pool of her own vomit, after her family were left to care for her with little support, following a cut to her care funding under the National Disability ...