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PM refuses meeting on Royal Commission
NSW Council for Intellectual Disability (CID) and Inclusion Australia (IA) are calling for a Royal Commission into abuse of people living with disability. Both Labor and The Greens are supporting the call for a Royal Commission after new figures reveal alarming rates…
News on Commonwealth government funding of advocacy
A media release is expected from Minister for Social Services, Christian Porter MP and Assistant Minister, Jane Prentice MP in the coming weeks about the future of the National Disability Advocacy Program (NDAP) and NDIS Appeals funding. Information about the…
Update on Disability Advocacy funding
The Federal Government has announced that it will extend the funding for the National Disability Advocacy Program (NDAP) and NDIS Appeals Funding to June 2020.
Petitioning the UNCRPD Committee
Inclusion International have reached out for support, calling on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Committee to remove Paragraph 47 from the Draft General Comment on Article 19; the right to live independently and be included…
Lack of funds means WA charities struggle to measure outcomes
The Centre for Social Impact at The University of Western Australia (CSI UWA) have conducted an Australia-first study on outcomes measurement, concluding that charities in Western Australia are struggling to measure their outcomes due to a lack of funding. The…
Queensland Taxi Subsidy Scheme reinstated for NDIS participants
On 15 July 2017, the Queensland Government announced that it will again provide the Taxi Subsidy Scheme (TSS) for National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants. It will involve the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) reinstating the TSS for…
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