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| UpdatedThe NSW Government is being accused of bungling its sell-off of disability services as it moves over to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Topics: health, disabilities, diseases-and-disorders, autism-spectrum-disorder, government-and-politics, privatisation-and-deregulation, community-and-society, carers, wollongong-2500, nsw
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| UpdatedHannah Macdougall was once rejected from a school because of her prosthetic leg — but it later was used as an unofficial class mascot. She's since gone on to represent Australia in both swimming and cycling.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, sport, paralympics, disabilities, cycling, bentleigh-3204, vic, melbourne-3000
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Four-year-old Oden Goudie spent the first few years of his life struggling, until the diagnosis of a rare eye disorder changed his life.
Topics: community-and-society, family-and-children, health, disabilities, preschool, children, children---preschoolers, bendigo-3550
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Topics: community-and-society, family-and-children, health, disabilities, preschool, education, children, children---preschoolers, bendigo-3550
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Topics: community-and-society, family-and-children, health, disabilities, preschool, education, children, children---preschoolers, bendigo-3550
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| UpdatedIn a decision with big implications for the funding of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the Federal Court rules in favour of 21-year-old Liam McGarrigle over his challenge to an earlier ruling that the NDIS pay only 75 per cent of his necessary transport costs.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, disabilities, moriac-3240, geelong-3220, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government launches an independent review of disability group home provider Autism Plus, following last night's ABC's Four Corners program which detailed allegations of the sexual assault of two residents said to have been ignored by the organisation.
Topics: disabilities, health, state-parliament, parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, nsw
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| UpdatedA hundred years ago people with an intellectual disability were locked up in "lunatic asylums". Today they're still locked away, but it's just behind the walls of suburbia, writes Alison Branley.
Topics: disabilities, health, health-administration, carers, community-and-society, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedFootage shows a fight between two boys at a group home.
Topics: disabilities, community-and-society, health, child-health-and-behaviour, australia
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| UpdatedOne of Australia's most high-profile providers of disability services, Lifestyle Solutions, is under review by both the Victorian Government and the NSW Ombudsman after a series of deaths of its clients.
Topics: disabilities, carers, health-administration, health, nsw, vic
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Topics: disabilities, government-and-politics, bomaderry-2541
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New South Wales MP Gareth Ward hopes to use his experience of living with albinism and being legally blind to help advocate for students with a disability in his new role as parliamentary secretary for education.
Topics: government-and-politics, disabilities, education, bomaderry-2541
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian disability care advocate slams the Government's response to "horror story" claims that a 26-year-old man with a brain injury was mistreated, including being restrained by having a couch placed on top of him.
Topics: disabilities, tas, devonport-7310
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A seriously disabled man in Tasmania was regularly locked outside in a courtyard by support workers and once pushed into a pool in an effort to calm him down.
Topics: disabilities, devonport-7310
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A Paralympic swimmer-turned-basketballer helped talk donors into backing the Adelaide Thunder's return to a national basketball competition.
Topics: basketball, sport, disabilities, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedVanessa Kennedy shares the joys and challenges of raising a child with Down syndrome.
Topics: disabilities, coffs-harbour-2450
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| UpdatedKnown as "Amp Camp", the camp run by the Amputee Association of NSW helps children with limb differences feel accepted.
Topics: disabilities, child-health-and-behaviour, health, human-interest, cobbitty-2570, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedSouth Australia has led the way on equal access to justice for those with a disability, so why is momentum to make the reforms national now slowing?
Topics: disabilities, judges-and-legal-profession, australia
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Topics: education, play-and-learning, health, disabilities, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, community-organisations, community-education, echuca-3564
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Topics: education, play-and-learning, health, disabilities, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, community-organisations, community-education, echuca-3564
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Topics: education, play-and-learning, health, disabilities, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, community-organisations, community-education, echuca-3564
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| UpdatedA community-based book club for people with intellectual and development disabilities is launched at the local library in Echuca.
Topics: education, play-and-learning, health, disabilities, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, community-organisations, community-education, echuca-3564
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The inaugural CEO of the troubled National Disability Insurance Scheme, David Bowen, announces his retirement after five years in the role.
Topics: disabilities, government-and-politics, federal-government, health, health-policy, health-insurance, australia
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A Townsville grandmother has pleaded with the NDIS to reconsider its decision to reject her daughter's application for help.
Topics: disabilities, health-policy, government-and-politics, health, community-and-society, family-and-children, townsville-4810