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Issue #2015

Canada: Dignity in death is no cure for indignity in life

At the end of April, CTV published a news item about a 31-year-old Toronto woman who was nearing final approval for a medically assisted death....

Issue #2005

New initiatives to address national care crisis a massive win for women workers

The union for aged care workers, early childhood educators and disability support workers has welcomed today’s announcement that an Albanese Labor government would deliver ground-breaking...

Issue #2036

Dealing with a disability and the NDIS process

Our grandson was placed with us when he was a baby. He was a victim of crime and is now living with an acquired brain...

Issue #2157

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Brazil: President Lula da Silva has condemned US sanctions against Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes as blatant interference in Brazil’s justice system. The sanctions,...

Issue #2016

Fund public health

Hospitals and their staff are at breaking point as the wave of BA.4/BA.5 COVID-19 sub-strains and flu send hospitalisations to breaking point. GPs across Australia...

Issue #2152

NDIS inbuilt rorts: a user’s view

The National Disability Insurance Scheme has private providers and rorting built in. This is our experience. We have written several letters of complaint about company...

Issue #2203

NDIS Bill slammed

The NDIS bill has passed the Senate after Labor made a deal with the Coalition. The bill is designed to cut costs by reducing budgets...

Issue #2114

Parliament works as designed – against workers

Several ABC commentators this week have been singing Parliament’s praises, cheering on co-operation between Labor and the Coalition. However, these messages about ‘reaching across the...

Issue #2128

Future Fund – Dirty and deadly

Treasurer Jim Chalmers stirred the Coalition pot when he announced changes to the Future Fund (FF) with its current nest egg of more than $230...

Issue #2111

‘Betrayal’ on disability reforms

“Disabled people will no longer accept being kept out of view, restrained to our beds, locked in institutions, or subjected to ableism and segregation by...

Issue #2177

Robo-cuts for NDIS

In 2024 the Albanese Labor government passed the Getting the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Back on Track No. 1 Bill which had the aim...

A rally calling on the Australian Commonwealth government to implement a National Disability Insurance Scheme in Reddacliff Place, Brisbane, in 2012.

Issue #2103

Bill to kill NDIS

“This bill threatens the future of the NDIS and the rights of disabled people. Labor had the gall to create it behind closed doors. It...

Issue #2197

NDIS deadly cuts

People with disability have gained an eight-week reprieve following a deal between the Greens and Labor to gain support for Labor’s tax changes. The Senate...

Issue #2100

More for war in a class budget

“In a cost-of-living crisis, the Labor government is choosing to remove $14.4 billion in funding from the NDIS that will lead to disabled people not...

Issue #2162

AUKUS: Who pays?

People with disabilities, the aged, the sick, the unemployed and other social security recipients, the most vulnerable in the community and those who capitalism sees...

Issue #2126

Disability Support Pension – Take action

During a recent Senate Estimates the Australian government released its official response to the report on the Purpose, intent and adequacy of the Disability Support...

Issue #2188

NDIS cuts – ‘We will fight back’

Weeks out from the federal budget the government has announced massive cuts to the NDIS that will throw an estimated 160,000 people off the scheme...