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Brittany Higgins received a settlement of $2.4 million from the Commonwealth with no admission of liability, contrary to what she told the Federal Court in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation suit, and broadcaster Alan Jones says he will sue over Nine newspapers’ allegations he indecently assaulted young men.

Mining billionaire says businesses have no excuse to stop burning fossil fuels; disability advocates concerned claimants could miss out

The long-awaited NDIS review has looked far beyond the National Disability Insurance Scheme, taking a bird’s eye view of disability services in Australia. Critical to the future of the NDIS are services for people with disability outside of the scheme.

Disability organisations welcome proposed changes around foundational supports but urge Labor to give guarantee no participant will be worse off

Bill Shorten, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Government Services, has released the review of the NDIS, which recommends sweeping changes to the scheme. The reforms to come will see the states take up much of the responsibility for providing services for people with more minor issues, especially…

It’s not just kids who get report cards (PDFs these days) as school breaks up. So do government ministers, when parliament rises at year’s end.

Review calls for total rethink of how governments offer disability support. Here is everything you need to know

Findings from an extensive review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) have been released with ideas on how to transform it. Led by co-chairs Bruce Bonyhady and Lisa Paul, the review heard from around 10,000 people before making 26 recommendations with 139 supporting actions. Presenting their findings, co-chairs wrote:

Following the release of a review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, peak bodies say people living with a disability must be at the reform table.

Listening to discussions about us as ‘burdens’ and ‘costs’ has been infuriating and wearying

Bruce Lehrmann raked in more than half a million dollars from media organisations, and Simon Birmingham, opposition foreign affairs spokesman, will lead a group of cross-party MPs to Israel next week.