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Pastoral carer highlights challenges faced by deaf people
One testimony at the Sydney Archdiocese’s Synod earlier this month highlighted the need for greater accessibility for Catholics who are too often overlooked. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
ACU honours childhood disability researcher
Parent advocate Rose Babic has received Australian Catholic University’s highest honour for her work empowering caregivers of children with disabilities.
Government to introduce strict entry criteria for NDIS
Australians with a disability would first need to exhaust “all appropriate” treatment options for their impairment to be eligible for the National Disability Insurance Scheme under strict entry criteria to help curb the program’s soaring costs. Source: The Guardian.
New NDIS eligibility tool will be ‘relatively blind’ to diagnoses
Health and Disability Minister Mark Butler says a person’s diagnosis will play almost no part in determining whether they qualify for access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Source: SMH.
Reforms spark fears over new definition of ‘permanent’ disability
Labor faces backlash over how it will define “permanent” disability and “functionality”, with warnings it will be “impossible” for one eligibility tool to be rolled out across more than 100 disability types. Source: The Australian.
Australians ‘uneasy’ about NDIS cuts amid $53bn in new defence spending
Health and NDIS Minister Mark Butler has defended the Albanese Government’s decision to trim the National Disability Insurance Scheme just days after announcing $53 billion in new defence spending. Source: The Guardian.
NDIS cuts a cause for concern: Catholic Social Services
Catholic Social Services Australia has expressed concern following the reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme announced by Health and NDIS Minister Mark Butler yesterday.
Butler to unveil system overhaul in pre-budget speech
Health Minister Mark Butler will unveil fixes to the country’s aged care system alongside his overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in his pre-budget speech on two of the Government’s fastest-growing cost pressures. Source: The Age.
Chalmers warns ‘unaffordable’ scheme faces major changes
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned the National Disability Insurance Scheme is not affordable in its current form, laying the groundwork for major changes to the $50 billion program to become the central savings plank of next month’s budget. Source: The Age.