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What should ‘foundational supports’ look like for people ineligible for the NDIS?

Most of the savings in this year’s budget came from cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

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AAP Rolling News Bulletin May 21, 1730

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FED:NDIS whistleblower protections 'worst' in Australia

Human rights lawyers are urging the federal government to create a law protecting whistleblowers in a bid to ensure integrity in the multi-billion dollar NDIS.

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FED:Laws stopping NDIS wrongdoing from being called out

Human rights lawyers are urging the federal government to create a law protecting whistleblowers, in a bid to ensure integrity in the multi-billion dollar NDIS.

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NDIS whistleblower protections 'worst' in Australia

Human rights lawyers are urging the federal government to create a law protecting whistleblowers in a bid to ensure integrity in the multi-billion dollar NDIS.

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Morning Mail: scientists sound alarm over CSIRO job losses, fears grow over Ebola outbreak, Arsenal crowned Premier League champions

Climate modelling at risk from science agency cuts; WHO mulls experimental Ebola vaccines; analysis reveals who will feel NDIS cuts the most

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Australians with Down syndrome among those to suffer most from proposed NDIS cuts to social activities

‘It’s heartless to cut supports we need to leave the house, work and study at a time when the cost of living has dramatically increased’, advocate says

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The government plans to tighten NDIS eligibility. Here’s what’s likely to change

Amid the noise and spectacle of budget week, one significant policy change has slipped largely under the radar. Health Minister Mark Butler introduced changes that, if passed by parliament, will tighten access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

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NDIS reform to clean-up fraud, improve care: providers

Sweeping NDIS reforms will enforce tougher provider registration requirements and improve the quality of support for all, an inquiry has been told.

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NDIS cuts could leave some participants with a funding gap. How will the changes affect you?

Proposals also grant the health minister power to change disability support rules without state or territory approval. Here’s what you need to know

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Angus Taylor’s plan to bar migrants from welfare payments undermines our quest for belonging

The proposed changes draw a clearer line between those who are fully entitled and those who are not

The Guardian - AU

Australians will need to exhaust ‘all appropriate’ treatment options to access NDIS under proposed rules

Exclusive: Sweeping overhaul expected to be introduced to parliament Thursday as Greens warn proposal is ‘extraordinarily alarming’

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Labor faces parliament challenge to budget tax reform

The treasurer will need to get the Greens or the coalition on board in order to make sweeping changes in his fifth budget a reality.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tim Wilson on the budget’s hidden hits on young Australians

The federal government’s fifth budget contains major, controversial changes to the tax arrangements for housing. The government has argued that the changes will ensure young people will have better access to the housing market.

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The budget in seven graphs: no big surprises but this may be one of the most ambitious moves to fix Australia’s finances

With some long-awaited sanity on housing and taxes, including CGT and negative gearing changes, it’s one of the most important for good – but will still leave some out in the cold

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Huge cuts to national disability insurance scheme aim to save more than $36bn in budget’s largest single measure

NDIS changes foreshadowed by health minister Mark Butler will drastically reduce access to the scheme, with nearly 700 staff positions to go at NDIA

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Grattan on Friday: The Farrer result will set off a willy willy. The budget already has

The run-up to a budget always sees a degree of chaos. But this year it has looked like one of those willy willies that blow up in outback Australia when the wind stirs a storm of dust.

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Albanese’s ratings jump in federal polls; Liberals easily retain Nepean at Victorian byelection

In both the Redbridge and Freshwater polls, Anthony Albanese’s net favourability has jumped eight points since late March to -9. In Redbridge, the Coalition rebounded from a low of 17% in March to 22%.

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Right tax moves matter more than mandates: treasurer

Expected changes to negative gearing or capital gains tax would not break an election promise because they would be for the right reasons, Jim Chalmers says.

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'Unbearable': care provider fined over burns death

It is "almost inconceivable" that two disability workers did not check water temperature before putting a highly vulnerable woman in a bath, a judge says.

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Revealed: amount of NDIS spending lost to fraud, misuse

About $3.7 billion is being lost annually from the NDIS through fraud or unintentional misuse of funds, the head of the scheme's fraud taskforce has warned.

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What do the proposed NDIS changes mean for people with disability living in supported accommodation?

Amid major reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), unveiled last week, NDIS minister Mark Butler announced the government’s plans to commission supported independent living services for people with disability, “rather than relying on a market that isn’t working”.

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Families of children with autism say their NDIS plans are already being cut – and the alternatives aren’t there

Before a massive overhaul of the disability scheme, families say plans are already being slashed or rejected as they are told to wait for support programs that do not yet exist

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NDIS cuts not just about kicking people off: minister

The minister in charge of the NDIS has defended looming changes to the scheme that will require people with disabilities to be reassessed.

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Today’s bloated NDIS would never have been greenlit, its former head says. How did we get here?

The Albanese government this week launched the most significant intervention in the disability support scheme’s history

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