Submission to the Attorney-General’s Department’s Enhancing Civil Protections and Remedies for Forced Marriage Consultation Paper.
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New NDIS support lists have started. This is what we know so far.
On Tuesday 1 October 2024, the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) released the NDIS support lists that define what supports the NDIS can pay for.
This blog post focuses on the NDIS support lists and what we currently know about them.
Transitional support lists only as good as the process to develop them. PWDA says this must not happen again.
The Australian Government has today released the transitional lists of what can and cannot be funded by the NDIS. PWDA is deeply concerned that these lists are only being made available less than two days before they come into effect with no guarantee that the information and how it impacts individual plans will be communicated directly to participants beforehand.
Review of maximum fares for rank and hail taxi services in NSW
PWDA welcomed the opportunity to provide a submission to the Independant Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal review of maximum fares for rank and hail taxi services
PWDA says centre co-design, choice and control to get registration right
PWDA has deep concerns about today’s proposal for all NDIS platform providers, support coordinators and Support Independent Living (SIL) providers to be registered.
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Implementation of the National Redress Scheme
PWDA welcomed the opportunity to provide a further submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Implementation of the National Redress Scheme’s Inquiry into the Operation of the National Redress Scheme.
Review of Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031
PWDA submission to the Department of Social Services 2024 review of Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031.
DRO Joint Statement on Lateral Violence in the Disability Community
We are Australia’s Disability Representative Organisations, and our job is to protect and support the rights of people with disabilities. We are also Australians with disabilities.
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PWDA responds to NDIS Minister Bill Shorten’s retirement from politics
PWDA acknowledges the decision announced today by the Minister for the NDIS Bill Shorten to retire from politics in February 2025.
2026 Census Joint Statement
Joint Statement in support of the inclusion of three new topics on gender, variations of sex characteristics, and sexual orientation variables into the 2026 Census