The Guardian • NDIS
Issue #2036
Commodification of health care
Since its introduction in 1984, Australia’s national health insurance scheme, Medicare, has been under constant attack from the privateers. Medicare is an anathema to their...
Read moreBacklash against NDIS Independent Assessments
As part of the latest Federal Budget on Tuesday the 11th of May, the Morrison government announced it would be increasing the annual budget of the NDIS.
Read moreFairer NDIS for all
On Saturday 20th of February, approximately 100 people gathered at the State Library of Victoria to fight independent assessments and for an improved, more accessible, and fair disability service.
Read moreReforms to DSP desperately needed
The Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs will conduct an investigation this year into the “purpose, intent and adequacy of the Disability Support Pension” (DSP).
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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...
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Issue #2013
DINGO
The federal Treasurer delivered an address to Treasury staff last week, informing them that the government would oppose wage claims and use available legislation to...
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Issue #2029
DINGO
Previously, this column mentioned the role of labour parties and social democracy as enablers to fascism. Against Fascism and War, Georgi Dimitrov’s report to the...
Read moreBUDGET RAZOR GANG
Despite everything that the Morrison government says about not pursuing “budget repair”, that is exactly what it is doing.
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Issue #2030
The mainstream media has excised coverage of Israel’s crimes in the West Bank and Gaza. While there is no end to the noise from the...
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Issue #2045
Outrageous assault on peace and vulnerable Australians
The naval nuclear reactors for Australia, announced today, represent one of the lowest points in Australian democracy in living memory. Unimaginable expenditure – up to...
Read moreIssue #1978, article “DISABLED AND NEURODIVERSE (NEURODIVERGENT) WORKERS’ ALLIANCE GAINS MOMENTUM.”
CORRECTION The Guardian needs to correct the name of “Disabled and Neurodiverse Workers’ Alliance” to “Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers Alliance” (DNWA). The article also claimed...
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Issue #2009
Feet on the ground
After nine years of corrupt, anti-people, climate deniers in office, the newly elected Albanese Labor government faces many challenges. Expectations of real change are high,...
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Issue #2105
Peter Dutton & the nuclear shit show
We watched in horror as Peter Dutton and a whole cavalcade of Coalition ministers rolled out their nuclear nightmare in a blatant attempt to keep...
Read moreGovernment’s contempt for disabled people can no longer be ignored
It is hardly a shocker to hear of the Coalition government’s antipathy towards its nation’s most disadvantaged people. But with recent facts coming to light this month, the government’s attacks on disabled people have gone from predictable to egregious.
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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...
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Issue #2085
DINGO
Among the many aspects of Israel’s aggression against the Palestinians is the claim by Israel that resistance forces such as Hamas will not acknowledge Israel’s...
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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...
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Issue #2198
NDIS Bill – what they said
The front page story of Guardian #2197, ‘NDIS deadly cuts,’ showed in detail what was wrong with the “inhumane, cost-cutting NDIS bill” (official title ‘Securing...
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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...
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Issue #2074
Respect my ability
It took years of struggle by disability advocacy groups and PWD (people with disabilities) and their supporters before the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect...
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Issue #2165
Aged care market nightmare
Changes under the Albanese government’s new Aged Care Act are set to take a hefty toll on all but the wealthy who enter the My...
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Issue #2068
Intergenerational Report – The march of history
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this...
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Issue #2053
Off the hook
Budgets are about political choices. We look at where governments are spending, and where they are cutting. The media draw up lists of winners and...
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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...
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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...
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Issue #2191
DINGO
The Greens have condemned the Albanese government plan to cut $38 billion from the NDIS, removing support from 160,000 people while increasing defence spending on...
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Issue #2182
Time to take profit out of NDIS
The Australian Services Union has warned that for-profit providers are jeopardising the viability and integrity of the NDIS, and is urging the federal government to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Issue #2189
Tax the corporate parasites
Last week’s hike in interest rates by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), designed to increase unemployment, reduce the spending power of the working class...
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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...
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