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Disability

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Getting the market ready for the NDIS

Getting the market ready for the NDIS

Touted as the largest social policy reform since Medicare,[1] the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a transfer from a state government-run, bulk-funded service delivery for people with disability to a national, market-based individualised system. Its establishment in 2013 marked the NDIS as the only national scheme of its

The economic advantages of disabled labour inclusion

The economic advantages of disabled labour inclusion

The Australian Bureau of Statistics describes a disability as ‘any limitation, restriction or impairment, which has lasted, or is likely to last, for at least six months.’ According to their 2012 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC), more than four million Australians are affected by a disability. That equates

Labor's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

Labor's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

The Coalition’s conditional support for the Labor proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has sparked media frenzy and has dominated domestic news headlines this past week due to the wide and deep affects this will have on the community at large. The scheme, funded in part by revenue raised