But the agency defended the spending saying it pays market rates for lawyers,and NDIS-related tribunal hearings made up only a fraction of all NDIS participants.
A 74-year-old polio survivor denied access to the NDIS because he is too old is challenging the ban in the Australian Human Rights Commission.
The disability royal commission heard in some states less than 10 people living in residential homes had been vaccinated,three months into the vaccine rollout.
Despite being included in phases 1a and 1b of the vaccine rollout,few people with disabilities or disability care workers have been vaccinated so far.
Like running a sprinkler in the height of a summer’s day,better resourcing fire services will be a tireless task made all the more dangerous with the growing global climate crisis.
From mid-2021,independent assessments will be used nationally to determine people's eligibility for the NDIS. Labor and the Greens say the basis for that decision is a"sham".
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has defended having less than 30 investigators after accusations of complaints'falling through the cracks'.
A disability advocate has detailed harrowing stories of abuse against some of Australia's most vulnerable people – from physical assaults to being put in cages – by those paid by taxpayers to care for them.
Liberal MLC Tjorn Sibma delivered an excoriating speech on Tuesday night about a series of tweets by Senator Jordon Steele-John which he said left him feeling"somewhere between anger and contempt".
A WA Greens senator who praised UK protesters for destroying a historical monument and encouraged his social media followers to tear down"symbols of white supremacy"has declined to comment further on a series of divisive tweets.
The Greens Senator for Western Australia talks about his relationship with money,government policy and the need to bust open the taboo around disability and sex.