Social enterprise Independence Australia will join forces with fellow NDIS provider Zest Care from next month. The post NDIS providers
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Labor vows to crack down on NDIS ‘cowboys’
The opposition says it will restore trust in the NDIS and crack down on unregistered providers if elected to government.
Former Victorian premier to head NDIS agency
Former Victorian Premier Dennis Napthine has been appointed chair of the NDIA board. The post Former Victorian premier to head
NDIS regulator joins action on psychotropics
The NDIS commission is among three major bodies to have committed to taking collaborative action to address the inappropriate use
A Secret Australia: Why Julian Assange’s own country ignored him and WikiLeaks’ exposés
As a journalist, scholar and media reformer, I have been following the activities of WikiLeaks for over a decade, assessing the disrupting force of new radical platforms for disclosure. WikiLeaks is a crucial example of a digital platform that exposes the contradictions of the internet as a tool for openness …
You might not like Scott Morrison’s daggy dad shtick, but it is paying off big time
It’s not often you get to see a prime minister’s feet. But there they were, splashed full-page in the Sunday Telegraph last weekend, a jacketed Scott Morrison standing in blue board shorts and white thongs, gazing at his phone. The snap that sparked debate over political propaganda. Photo: Facebook ‘ScoMo …
With five food delivery riders killed in two months, Australia’s gig economy faces a reckoning
The federal government is facing increasing pressure to regulate Australia’s ‘gig economy’ following a spate of delivery rider deaths. Five delivery riders working for apps including UberEats, DoorDash and Hungry Panda have been killed on the job in the past two months. On Monday, an as yet unnamed rider died …
Delivering the NDIS: Implementation of reforms for a simpler, faster, fairer and more flexible NDIS
24 November 2020 The Morrison Government is on track to deliver significant improvements to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
Update on NDIS coronavirus supports in South Australia
19 November 2020Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Stuart Robert, has confirmed NDIS participants in South Australia have access
Larry Hackett: If Trumpism is a virus where was it seeded?
If Trumpism is a virus here to stay, 1980s New York City was its wet market. That’s where this stubborn civic plague first took root – a more benign strain to be sure, one where the local population achieved herd immunity before a more virulent strain jumped to the broader …
Increased protections for NDIS participants
12 November 2020 Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Stuart Robert, today welcomed the passage of legislation that will
Former PMs to give evidence at Senate inquiry into media diversity
A new Senate inquiry that is set to examine Australia’s media sector will hear evidence of the impact of media concentration on democracy from former prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull. The inquiry, which will report by the end of March 2021, followed the tabling of a petition this …