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The May 9 budget will include a $2.2 billion suite of measures to seek to ease pressures in primary health care and hospitals, as well as containing initiatives directed towards the crisis in the rental…

If people with disability can’t access the NDIS, they’re often left without any services or supports. This needs to change.

Compulsory tests, essays, regular grades and timed exams are considered a given in university life. But the Universities Accord should change this.

Some services require a formal diagnosis of autism or ADHD – but there is much parents and carers can do to support their child and their own wellbeing.

A class-action lawsuit that alleges Floridas Medicaid program has denied coverage for incontinence supplies for adults with disabilities is moving forward

While each microaggression may not seem particularly harmful, they add up and can erode the psychological and physical health of people in minority groups.

Our analysis of part-time work and its impact on wellbeing shows getting more people with disability into employment could save millions in health-care costs.

Being stuck in hospital means NDIS participants lose the gains made in rehabilitation as well as condition, confidence and social connection. Specialist housing is ready and waiting.

Reports of barriers facing Indigenous people with disability in remote communities are not new. Let’s stop relying on old excuses.

We surveyed more than 100 Australian parents of children with ADHD about lockdown learning to see what worked and what did not.