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NDIS reform to clean-up fraud, improve care: providers

Sweeping NDIS reforms will enforce tougher provider registration requirements and improve the quality of support for all, an inquiry has been told.

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NDIS cuts could leave some participants with a funding gap. How will the changes affect you?

Proposals also grant the health minister power to change disability support rules without state or territory approval. Here’s what you need to know

The Guardian - AU

Australians from hantavirus cruise ship fly out of Netherlands in full PPE after plane and crew secured

Health minister Mark Butler says six passengers who have tested negative for hantavirus will land in Western Australia on Friday

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Hantavirus cruise evacuees secure flight to Australia

Six cruisers evacuated from a hantavirus-stricken ship will arrive back in Australia ahead of a three-week quarantine under the watch of critical care staff.

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Australians will need to exhaust ‘all appropriate’ treatment options to access NDIS under proposed rules

Exclusive: Sweeping overhaul expected to be introduced to parliament Thursday as Greens warn proposal is ‘extraordinarily alarming’

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Urgent care clinics, medicines and vaccines: what the budget means for Australians’ health

Health was at the heart of last year’s budget. Last night, tax and housing took centre stage, and there were few surprises in health.

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Huge cuts to national disability insurance scheme aim to save more than $36bn in budget’s largest single measure

NDIS changes foreshadowed by health minister Mark Butler will drastically reduce access to the scheme, with nearly 700 staff positions to go at NDIA

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Experts back quarantine plan for cruise ship evacuees

Experts say the need for quarantine facilities will increase in the future, as Australian hantavirus cruise ship passengers make their way home.

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‘Difficult’ mission to repatriate Australian hantavirus cruise passengers en route to long Perth quarantine

Health minister Mark Butler says six people from MV Hondius plus flight crew from charter plane to be isolated for weeks

The Guardian - AU

Specialist doctors are charging too much. 4 options to rein in excessive fees

Australia’s Health Minister Mark Butler has declared reducing specialists’ fees will be his next key focus of health policy reform.

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Australians from hantavirus cruise ship to be quarantined near Perth for three weeks

Four Australian citizens and one permanent resident from the MV Hondius to fly home via Perth on Tuesday

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Kid's cancer centre zeroes in on 'terrible disease'

Australia is opening its first centre focused solely on transforming the experiences and outcomes for children and young people with cancer.

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Backlash over secret Senate hearing for tobacco giants

The federal government is asking what the coalition has to hide, after it was sprung offering a private hearing to tobacco giant Philip Morris.

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Coalition accused of secretly giving big tobacco lobbyists private platform in parliament

Exclusive: A Senate committee considering the illegal tobacco trade in Australia hears closed-session evidence from cigarette manufacturers

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The federal government is considering capping specialists’ fees. Is that constitutional?

Health Minister Mark Butler has said the government is considering capping specialists’ fees to reduce the gap between what Medicare covers and what specialists charge patients.

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What do the proposed NDIS changes mean for people with disability living in supported accommodation?

Amid major reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), unveiled last week, NDIS minister Mark Butler announced the government’s plans to commission supported independent living services for people with disability, “rather than relying on a market that isn’t working”.

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NDIS cuts not just about kicking people off: minister

The minister in charge of the NDIS has defended looming changes to the scheme that will require people with disabilities to be reassessed.

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Today’s bloated NDIS would never have been greenlit, its former head says. How did we get here?

The Albanese government this week launched the most significant intervention in the disability support scheme’s history

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NDIS eligibility will be based on ‘functional capacity’, not diagnostic labels. But what does that mean?

This week the government unveiled plans to reduce the number of people in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) by 160,000 over the next four years, a decision NDIS Minister Mark Butler has called “hard” but “unavoidable and urgent”.

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Pressure on states to get behind NDIS changes

States and territories are being lobbied by the federal treasurer to back National Disability Insurance Scheme reforms to handle more people than previously.

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s NDIS cuts leave many questions unanswered. Here’s what we know so far

Who will be eligible, whether decisions can be challenged and how fraud will be weeded out are just some of the unsettled details

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Grattan on Friday: Politically, the baby boomers’ day is done

Politically, it’s a very bad time to be a baby boomer.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: ABC’s James Valentine mourned; Judith Neilson’s secretary charged with fraud; and a day in the world’s biggest city

Valentine became a radio presenter in 1999. He held the role for more than two decades, with a brief detour presenting ABC Radio Breakfast in 2022 and 2023

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Australians ‘uneasy’ about NDIS cuts amid $53bn in new defence spending, Mark Butler concedes

Minister tells Guardian Australia despite substantial changes to disability scheme, it will remain one of best support services ‘anywhere in the world’

The Guardian - AU

Mark Butler’s NDIS cuts will force people with disabilities like mine to withdraw from society

The inclusive world disability advocates fought so hard for is being torn apart by ruthless, ableist bureaucracy

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