PDCN’s new Policy Officer Alice Batchelor has spent her first few weeks in the job reviewing the main federal political parties’ disability policies. Read on…
Most of us have experienced a drastic rise in spam phone calls and text messages over the past year, designed to feed on our anxieties…
Be prepared to book days in advance. Many PDCN members will be aware that Ticketek has been on PDCN’s radar for some time for failing…
The weirdness of a delayed Paralympic Games held during a worldwide pandemic, and trying to focus on the job at hand. A special feature by…
The disability advocacy sector has spent the last month collectively poring over the draft bill of the NDIS Act. The NDIA says the changes will…
Why the proposed independent assessment model is still alive. As someone who has worked with people with disability for most of my life, I celebrated…
People on the NDIS can build plans based on their goals and aspirations, why don’t we give older Australians the same opportunity? As the public’s…
The more we learn about the Coalition’s plans for the NDIS, the greater our concern. On Tuesday 18 May, the Minister for the National Disability…
Minimum accessibility standards to Silver Level will soon be regulated across all new housing builds under the National Construction Code. On Friday 30 April 2021,…
PDCN have just submitted our response to the Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS Independent Inquiry into Independent Assessments in the NDIS. The Federal Government…