What is a ‘NDIS Appeal’? Let me clarify at the outset that the key NDIS legislation does not use the term ‘appeal’. Instead, it refers
Aaagh! The NDIS has got it wrong! Disappointed that the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has rejected your family member’s application to access the NDIS?
Conciliation of discrimination complaints My recent article ‘Ouch! Disability discrimination hurts. How does the law protect us?, described Australia’s discrimination laws and the process for
Before you make a disability discrimination complaint My previous article, ‘Ouch! Discrimination Hurts. How Does the Law Protect Us’ looked at how discrimination is prohibited
The impact of disability discrimination Ouch! Being treated differently because of disability can hurt the person with disability and their family members, friends and others
When it was introduced in 2013, the NDIS was heralded as being the greatest social reform in Australia since Medicare [1]. This article describes what
The Australian laws that affect people with disability and their families are as many, diverse and complex as the lives of people with disability and
Four essential features of a good independent advocate Many readers, as the parent or sibling of a child or adult with an intellectual disability or
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