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Data concerns emerge over smart meters

ABC

Sally Sara: Hello and welcome to The World Today. In a rare act of bipartisanship in what could be the last sitting week before a Federal election, the Coalition backed Labor's bill that also enshrines legal rights for aged care recipients. CEO of Peakbody Group, the Aged and Community Care Providers Association, Tom Symondson, says it will relieve financial pressure …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Bill Shorten flags NDIS changes to music and art therapy funding

ABC

Music therapy is the highlight of four-year-old Kai Wall's week. "While art and music therapy remain permissible, they do not meet the evidentiary standards required to be classified as a 'therapy' under the definition of NDIS supports," it said. "Participants who have art or music therapy stated in their plan, because it is reasonable and necessary and based on evidence …

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1 month ago

Tasmanian NDIS participant Adam Quarrell demanding apology over handling of his case

ABC

Adam Quarrell describes being an NDIS participant as like "being in an abusive relationship". Adam Quarrell says an NDIS planner asked him, "can't you just hold it in" when he was discussing his need for catheters. After speaking on live radio, contacting the Tasmanian Disability Services Minister and staging a sit-in outside the NDIS office in Hobart on Thursday, Mr …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Death of 26yo woman who lived with 'significant' disabilities prompts call for safeguards

ABC

An "expression of interest" to access the National Disability Insurance Scheme was made seven years ago on behalf of a woman with "significant" disabilities whose death has now prompted a major criminal investigation. South Australian Human Services Minister Nat Cook said state government agencies had been "reviewing contact and service records" to check whether Ms Fredericks's case had been raised …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

'Lucky' Bill Shorten offers one more zinger, as he prepares to leave politics

ABC

Bill Shorten had one last "zinger" to offer when announcing his retirement from politics, as a journalist asked for an inside look into the conversations that led to his decision. "I think you would be one of the great fly fishermen of Australia, with that bait you're dangling," Mr Shorten joked as he spoke in the prime minister's courtyard. Prime …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Former Labor leader Bill Shorten to retire from politics to take top job at University of Canberra

ABC

Labor frontbencher Bill Shorten will retire from politics after an almost two-decade-long career in parliament. The prime minister said he asked Mr Shorten to remain in cabinet until next year because they agreed there was still "important work" to be done on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The government's overhaul of the scheme passed parliament last month and Mr Shorten …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Sex work access under NDIS to be banned, removing supports for 'ordinary life', say disability advocates

ABC

Sex work will be banned from being funded through the National Disability Insurance Scheme under NDIS Minister Bill Shorten's planned reforms, the minister has confirmed. Speaking at the National Press Club in 2021 Mr Shorten, then shadow disability minister, said he was not sure whether funding for sex workers was sustainable — but he criticised the Morrison government's plan to …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Bill Shorten looks to reassure disabled Australians over NDIS overhaul

ABC

In short: NDIS Minister Bill Shorten says changes to the scheme must occur to keep it going. Professor Bonyhady told a Senate inquiry into the NDIS reform legislation last month "the status quo is not an option". "We need to give the disability community our academics, experts and advocates the opportunity to properly and thoroughly analyse the amendments brought forward …

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7 months ago

Why the states and territories are clashing with the federal government over the NDIS

ABC

As two days of parliamentary hearings kick off into draft legislation paving the way for changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, a governmental stoush has re-emerged. Among other things, it amends the NDIS Act to: provide clarity about what constitutes an "NDIS support"; that is, what services can be funded under an NDIS plan create a "new planning framework" …

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9 months ago

Bill Shorten refers conference to consumer watchdog for falsely promoting him as keynote speaker

ABC

An unofficial NDIS event held by a private company in the Great Hall at Parliament House, which cost hundreds of dollars to attend, has been referred to the consumer watchdog after wrongly promoting that government ministers would be in attendance. The event page on the website advertises that the federal NDIS Minister Bill Shorten, the ACT Minister for Disability, Rachel …

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1 year, 2 months ago

A review, bans, $1m in fines and a crackdown on NDIS regulator after 'shocking' ABC investigation

ABC

The NDIS regulator has commissioned an independent inquiry after an ABC investigation found providers had unlawfully restrained children with disabilities in a manner which amounted to a breach of human rights. He also said he was "perplexed" about subsequent information reported by the ABC that children continued to be secluded in small, windowless rooms at Irabina up until last year …

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1 year, 6 months ago

NDIS minister vows to crack down on prices, offers participants greater flexibility

ABC

NDIS participants will have more control over the length of their plans within the next 12 months, according to the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill Shorten. Key points: The government will bring in changes to plan lengths within the next year The current annual review process has been dubbed "traumatic" The government is working with the consumer …

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1 year, 8 months ago

NDIS 'reboot' will include more staff, cost crackdown, longer-term plans and shonky services purge, Shorten says

ABC

Disability Services Minister Bill Shorten says the government's central agency for supporting Australians with a disability has "lost its way" and needs significant work to ensure it can survive into the future. Key points: The NDIS minister has promised a reboot of the government's key disability agency, which he says has gone off track Bill Shorten promised more staff, longer-term …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Politics of future budgets likely to get harder for Albanese government

ABC

When Kevin Rudd made Bill Shorten parliamentary secretary for disabilities in 2007, the post was a good deal less than the high-profile new MP's ambition for a ministry. Announcing a review of the NDIS this week, Shorten revealed that its estimated costs over the next four years had risen by $8.8 billion just since the March budget. Government brings forward …

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