People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has welcomed $13.2 billion of funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme but has dubbed the latest Federal Budget “not a budget for people with disability.” The federal government will put in an extra $13.2b for the NDIS to be spent over four years. The disabled people’s organisation was the… Continue Reading Media Release: #Budget2021 ‘not a budget for people with disability’
The president of People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has reprimanded the Australian Government for using “dodgy accounting” to frighten people about the expected cost of the nation’s National Disability Insurance Scheme. PWDA president Samantha Connor said the government was using scare tactics to sell a suite of reforms that would disadvantage people with disability. “Tonight,… Continue Reading Media Release: Government’s scare tactics on NDIS is based on ‘dodgy accounting’
People with Disability Australia and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre are writing to the Federal Attorney-General Michaelia Cash to urge the Government to introduce legislation to make targeted amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) to counter the effect of the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court in Sklavos v Australian College… Continue Reading Media Release: Reforming the Disability Discrimination Act following the Sklavos decision
People with Disability Australia (PWDA) has released a list of asks for the next Federal Budget in a document called A Fair Go for People with Disability (see below). The disabled people’s organisation is calling for a raft of measures to be urgently funded and implemented to meet Australia’s responsibilities under the United Nations Convention… Continue Reading Media Release: What People with Disability Want from the Federal Budget
PWDA representatives along with sector partners met with NDIS Minister, the Hon Linda Reynolds MP, today (30 April 2021). They presented senator Reynolds with a formal “terms of engagement” which can be found here.
This week, I spoke at the Joint Standing Committee on the issues around Independent Assessments. I spoke not in my capacity as President of People with Disability Australia, nor as a board member on any of the other boards that I sit on. I spoke as a disabled woman and a carer who, like many… Continue Reading MEDIA RELEASE: Fears are Justified, Says PWDA President