Mastodawn

The unseen costs of living with a disability in regional Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-23/the-cost-of-living-with-disability-in-the-regions/106440882 #Disabilities #MentalHealth #Carers #NDIS #Disability #AusPol

The unseen costs of living with a disability in regional Australia

NDIS recipients living in regional Australia are calling for the government to provide better care for those who live remotely with travel costs often eating up a large portion of their support budgets.

Dale Reardon 15h ago

ABC News: Banned NDIS provider filmed entering disability housing https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-23/banned-ndis-provider-moaz-jay-ibrahim-sda-housing/106464624 #PeopleWithDisability #RentalHousing #NDIS #Disability

Banned NDIS provider filmed entering disability housing

A man banned from working in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and having any contact with the program’s participants has been filmed entering specialist disability housing in Melbourne.

RaymondPierreL3 16h ago

Senator Jordan Stell-John has just deliverred his response to #PaulineHanson’s call for an Inquiry into the #NDIS that has absolutely demolished her arguments and called her out as an outrageous #Ablist. His response reminds everyone that fraud in the disability support sector is decades old, perhaps centuries old and service provider #fraud ought to be prosecuted for it. The disabled community are the vicitms here and #Hanson’s digusting ‘hear-say’ proposal was a ignominious slurr.

#AusPol

Cleo 4d ago

Cool cool cool. So not just me then.
#auspol #ndis
https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/the-media-wants-disabled-people-to-be-locked-inside-until-they-die/

The media wants disabled people to be locked inside until they die - The Shot

If you’ve had the misfortune of reading the Murdoch press or the Australian Financial Review at all in the past...

The Shot

Dale Reardon 5d ago

Guardian News: Sam endured four miserable years in a disability group home. The NDIS was meant to change that – but reports of neglect are surging https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/18/ndis-disability-group-home-neglect-ntwnfb #Nationaldisabilityinsurancescheme #Disability #NDIS #AusPol #Discrimination

Sam endured four miserable years in a disability group home. The NDIS was meant to change that – but reports of neglect are surging

Exclusive: The regulator is fielding an increasing number of reports of abuse, injuries and unauthorised restraint, documents released under FoI show

The Guardian

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Su_G 6d ago

@jhaue
Wow, what a read… but is it all too simple? Or why is it like this? “This week, the Australia Institute has published our annual tally of subsidies, concessions and tax breaks to major fossil fuel users and producers such as coal mines and gas companies. Our estimate is $16.3 billion in 2025-26.

That’s an increase of $1.4 billion on the $14.9 billion we estimated last year, an increase of 9.6%.

Meanwhile, the NDIS grew by 7.6%.

To be clear, this means that handouts to Clive Palmer and Rio Tinto are growing faster than the costs of helping Australians with a disability.

It’s time to call BS on the idea that we can’t afford to look after each other, while governments simultaneously hand out billions to foreign-owned mining companies.

#AusPol #subsidies #fossilFuel #NDIS

Jane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️Mar 16

Where AFR is the reporting that the government is spending $184 billion by 2030 on the diesel fuel tax rebate, where fossil fuels are killing people and planet? Are walks, movies and haircuts killing people? Why demonise disabled people, instead of fossil fuels and billionaires? #disability #NDIS

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ljlkvylmoyamzbvwy44t6ahe/post/3mh5njv34q22e

Capping Australia’s biggest fo...

Dale Reardon Mar 15

Inside a family's 'exhausting' battle with the #NDIS to support disabled son https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/perth-family-ndis-support-battle-/106328150 #AutismSpectrumDisorder #PeopleWithDisability #Disabilities #Children #Carers #Disability #AusPol #Discrimination

'Jumping through hoops': The impact of one family's NDIS battle

The parents of a disabled teenager have lifted the lid on the toll lobbying the NDIS for adequate support has taken on their lives, saying they feel exhausted and let down.

Cleo Mar 15

The #ndis has already killed a family. Looks like they want to kill more. Friendly reminder the #ndis cost less than the subsudies we give to fossil fuel companies.
#auspol #healthcare #disability
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/perth-family-ndis-support-battle-/106328150

'Jumping through hoops': The impact of one family's NDIS battle

The parents of a disabled teenager have lifted the lid on the toll lobbying the NDIS for adequate support has taken on their lives, saying they feel exhausted and let down.

gusseting Mar 13

Mentioned to someone that I was concerned about the fallout from #robodebt in terms of uptake of #automatingInequality.
"Yeah, what if they used AI to audit people's spending of their NDIS budget, "find" issues in their spending, and send them automated debt notices they can't challenge?"
*shudders*
#NDIS #AusPol #Disability #Australia