For the visibly disabled person, the battle against discrimination is constant, and sometimes brings uncomfortable public scrutiny as a token for inclusion.
As senior staff at the National Disability Insurance Agency explain their role in establishing robo-debt, the agency is seeking to expand similar compliance programs targeting people with disability.
The latest resurgence in Covid-19 is being met with a notable lack of urgency by state officials, who are trying out more ‘hopeful’ messaging, despite signs that the population isn’t keeping up to date with vaccinations.
Fresh details have emerged about Scott Morrison’s first briefing on robo-debt, but notes that may reveal exactly what was said at the meeting have been destroyed.
A consulting firm responsible for a quarter of the aged-care sector has warned its providers to avoid high-needs patients or risk reducing ‘profitability’.
Hospital developments are being announced across NSW, but the government has refused requests from its own department to adequately fund new medical staffing.
In 2008 Labor pledged to halve homelessness, instead it exploded in a decade of Coalition leadership. Now a new national agreement must tackle a ‘vicious spiral’ of unaffordable housing and poverty.
The latest changes to Covid-19 rules – shortening isolation periods and removing some mask mandates – were made without any written advice and no modelling was provided to national cabinet.
