‘Absolutely a crisis’: almost a quarter of Australia’s aged care shifts unfilled each week

Disability sector also suffers critical loss of workers as they miss out on government’s promised $400 bonuses Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Post-Covid protection: what…

As a disabled person trying to ‘live with’ Covid in Australia, every day is a game of figuring out who is least likely to kill me | George Taleporos

Federal and state governments have failed disabled people like me during the pandemic I’m the disabled guy on several committees, advising governments what to do to keep people with disabilities…

Dylan Alcott: Australian of the Year calls for people with disability to be given free rapid antigen tests

Alcott’s call follows Coalition’s decision to allow NDIS participants to dip into their core funding to buy the devices Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Follow…

Coalition’s religious discrimination bill will erode rights of people with disability, advocates say

More than two dozen disability support organisations say bill allows legally protected ‘hurt and humiliation’ and should be abandoned Disability groups say the Morrison government’s proposed religious discrimination bill will…

‘Unconscionable’ to lift lockdowns before all Australians with disability can be vaccinated, inquiry says

Scathing report finds federal health department ‘seriously deficient’ in rolling out vaccine to people with disability Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Covid vaccine rollout and rates…