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Disability advocate are demanding equal access to sexual services

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NDIS Minister, Bill Shorten, announced last week that sex work services will no longer be funded by the NDIS scheme. It was a decision criticised by community advocates, with Greens disability spokesperson Jordan Steele-John, on social media, calling it “a double standard”. Katia Schwartz, who is the National Programs Manager for Scarlet Alliance, a national …

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Bill Shorten: disability community should embrace NDIS changes

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Eleven years ago, then Prime Minister Julia Gillard introduced a bill to create the National Disability Insurance Scheme. But now, there’s growing anxiety within the disability community about upcoming changes to the NDIS. Minister for the NDIS, Bill Shorten, looks back at where it all began and why he wants participants of the scheme to …

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A Government under pressure

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Last week question time was largely taken up with the Minister for Immigration Andrew Giles answering awkward questions about the vexxed question of deportation of convicted criminals.  In a bizarre twist, he initially said that the Government was monitoring dangerous released detainees with drones which he subsequently recanted. Bill Shorten was dealing today with the …

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NDIS shifts focus: personalised autism support

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The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is making significant updates in how it supports people with autism, shifting from focusing only on diagnoses too considering everyone’s unique needs. However, Bill Shorten’s, the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme of Australia, suggestion challenges the old idea that having a diagnosis automatically qualifies you for NDIS …

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