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| UpdatedMadeline Luk has a rare form of dwarfism but it doesn't stop the six-year-old from tottering about the classroom or playing handball in her power wheelchair in the playground.
Topics: disabilities, education, schools, health, human-interest, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedConcern is growing in regional South Australia that people with a disability will miss out on the support they need despite the roll out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Topics: disabilities, health, community-and-society, port-pirie-5540, kadina-5554, moonta-5558, sa
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World number one's Gordon Reid, Jiske Griffioen and Dylan Alcott should all be household names, yet few people seem to even know about the Australian Open Wheelchair Championships.
Topics: australian-open, sport, disabilities, community-and-society, people, melbourne-3000
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A Newcastle woman takes a leading role in fundraising for the community after the death of her son.
Topics: brain-and-nervous-system, diseases-and-disorders, children, child-health-and-behaviour, disabilities, charities-and-community-organisations, people, human-interest, newcastle-2300
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Topics: swimming, disabilities, extreme-sports, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA far north Queensland man whose passion for adventure landed him in a wheelchair is training for one of the toughest open water swims in Queensland.
Topics: swimming, extreme-sports, accidents---other, rehabilitation, disabilities, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, magnetic-island-4819, goondiwindi-4390
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Disability advocates and families want West Australian women in government care to be able to choose female carers to assist them with showering and other intimate duties to minimise the potential for abuse.
Topics: disabilities, carers, wa
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government announces an independent review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme to examine overall costs, value for money and its long-term sustainability.
Topics: disabilities, health, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedMission Australia cuts six mental health jobs in the state's north because of funding changes associated with the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Topics: disabilities, federal---state-issues, mental-health, tas
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| UpdatedThe family and psychologist of a Bhutanese refugee who took her own life before Christmas are appealing to the Federal Government to better manage welfare assessments for vulnerable people.
Topics: immigration, refugees, community-and-society, suicide, disabilities, health, mental-health, qld, australia
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| UpdatedAn Adelaide care facility for people with disabilities and mental health conditions says its future is in limbo, with fears it could lose at least $200,000 a year because of the further roll-out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Topics: states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, disabilities, health, mental-health, healthcare-facilities, semaphore-5019, adelaide-5000, sa
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Sixteen special needs children end their Nippers season on a high at Anglesea beach during their final session for the summer.
Topics: surf-life-saving, other-sports, disabilities, health, community-and-society, community-organisations, anglesea-3230
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Kerri-Lynn Peachey from AgrAbility Australia and farmers Bob and Vickie Chaffey discuss the resources and support available to farmers returning to work after illness or injury.
Topics: rural, safety, disabilities, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, beef-cattle, farm-labour, community-development, agricultural-machinery, dubbo-2830, tamworth-2340, bundaberg-4670
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Topics: rural, safety, disabilities, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, beef-cattle, farm-labour, community-development, agricultural-machinery, dubbo-2830
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Australian farmers with a disability are being encouraged to connect with their peers to aid their return to work, but their support services are struggling to find funding.
Topics: rural, safety, disabilities, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, beef-cattle, farm-labour, community-development, agricultural-machinery, dubbo-2830, tamworth-2340, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedA Queensland medical graduate who was left quadriplegic after a car accident says being offered a place as an intern at the Gold Coast University Hospital is "incredible and surreal".
Topics: health, community-and-society, disabilities, southport-4215, qld
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| UpdatedThere are fears the ACT's problems with the NDIS — higher than expected enrolments, participants saying there are not enough support workers, and care providers saying the pay rates are too low — could flow on to other states and territories.
Topics: disabilities, act
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A central Queensland pistol club running shooting classes for people with an intellectual disability is hoping to find Australia's next Paralympic talent.
Topics: disabilities, shooting, other-sports, sport, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: disabilities, government-and-politics
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| UpdatedFamilies trying to access the National Disability Insurance Scheme say the reforms are struggling to keep up with demand in Tasmania and it is only going to get worse.
Topics: disabilities, government-and-politics, tas, deloraine-7304
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Topics: disabilities, government-and-politics
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| UpdatedOnly 42 per cent of Northern Territorians signed up to the National Disability Insurance Scheme have received funding for their choice of "reasonable and necessary supports" to help them lead a more ordinary life.
Topics: disabilities, health, health-policy, tennant-creek-0860, nt
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A social media site created by a Tasmanian man and designed for people with disabilities is being praised by users as a useful place to make friends and to look for advice about services.
Topics: community-and-society, disabilities, health, autism-spectrum-disorder, anxiety, social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, tas, australia
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A good Samaritan gives an Adelaide mother the money to hire an electric wheelchair after her own broke down a month ago.
Topics: disabilities, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa
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A serious motorbike accident left Mackay's Paul Schembri without the use of his legs, but his inventive tractor modification has ensured he remains in the drivers seat.
Topics: disabilities, farm-labour, community-and-society, rural, accidents, rural-youth, mackay-4740, sarina-4737