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Q&A questioner asks George Brandis about reviews of disability pensions, February 20, 2017.
Topics: carers, disabilities, federal-government, australia
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A central Queensland teenager with congenital muscular dystrophy is elected vice-captain at his school by his teachers and peers.
Topics: disabilities, secondary-schools, leadership, rockhampton-4700
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Topics: disabilities, secondary-schools, leadership, rockhampton-4700
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Charity returns to Hobart to give children with disabilities the chance to sail a yacht and discover disability does not mean inability.
Topics: disabilities, sailing, charities-and-community-organisations, hobart-7000, tas
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| UpdatedThe Western Australian education system is failing to meet the needs of some highly disabled children because of inflexibility and a lack of expertise, an experienced educator says.
Topics: schools, disabilities, wa
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| UpdatedPeople with disabilities, including Adelaide man Nick Schumi, say it is hard to land a job when you head to an interview only to find the building cannot accommodate your wheelchair.
Topics: disabilities, activism-and-lobbying, states-and-territories, work, community-and-society, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedLateline spent a day with Fiona Hough and her five-year-old son Charlie, who has autism, to see how they cope when the carer doesn't come.
Topics: disabilities, carers, community-and-society, family-and-children, australia
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Thousands of Australian families rely on carers to help ease the burden of looking after a loved one with disabilities, but many of these families say a shortage of trained carers has left them struggling to cope, February 16, 2017.
Topics: carers, disabilities, family, australia
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Tyres were squeaking, and footballs were thudding against the shiny wooden floor of the Somerset recreation centre as players warmed up ahead of a come-and-try wheelchair AFL match.
Topics: disabilities, other-sports, australian-football-league, people, men, community-and-society, somerset-7322
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Jamie Elphinstone (left) and his brother Larry after playing wheelchair AFL together
Topics: disabilities, somerset-7322
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One of the players about to offload the football during the match
Topics: disabilities, somerset-7322
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Richard Jones kicking a goal, wheelchair AFL style
Topics: disabilities, somerset-7322
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Richard Jones on the court ready for a match of wheelchair AFL
Topics: disabilities, somerset-7322
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Larry Elphinstone handballing the ball over his brother Jamie on the court in Somerset
Topics: disabilities, somerset-7322
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| UpdatedA man uses his robotic exoskeleton to walk onto the soccer pitch. A woman sees the world using her bionic eye. Sound like science fiction? No, these are all real stories.
Topics: biotechnology, science-and-technology, neuroscience, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, disabilities, health, australia, germany, sweden
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| UpdatedFor many disability and education advocates it's confirmation of their long-held belief, but new figures appear to suggest students with a disability face an enormous funding gap in Australian schools.
Topics: education, access-to-education, disabilities, health, australia
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| UpdatedSenior Coalition Minister Christopher Pyne says the Government has no "absolutely no desire or intention" to increase taxes to help pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Topics: government-and-politics, disabilities, community-and-society, federal-parliament, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedOnce it's fully operational, the NDIS will be one of the biggest Government-funded program after Medicare. But where will those funds come from?
Topics: disabilities, health, health-administration, health-insurance, health-policy, australia
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| UpdatedFive-time Paralympian and disability advocate Kurt Fearnley criticises the Federal Government's decision to cut funding to other social services to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Topics: disabilities, health, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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Paralympian and disability advocate Kurt Fearnley says he is disappointed funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme has been linked to cuts to social services by the government.
Topics: disabilities, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison says he will discuss the establishment of a special savings account to quarantine money for the NDIS with the Senate.
Topics: disabilities, health, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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Topics: rural-women, mining-industry, disabilities, kalgoorlie-6430
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| UpdatedIt is simply unacceptable that people with intellectual disability in our community are dying from preventable causes at over twice the rate as other Australians, write acting NSW Ombudsman Professor John McMillan and Deputy Ombudsman Steve Kinmond.
Topics: health, mental-health, disabilities, human, human-interest, healthcare-facilities, nsw