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This is a summary of the Participant Reference Group’s (PRG) recent meeting. The PRG consists of 23 participant and carer representatives across Australia. The PRG is a key platform to ensure the participant voice is heard and understood by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). Feedback from meetings is used to inform strategy, policy development, system and service delivery development and review, to support continuous improvement. Chairperson’s welcome Donna Purcell, NDIA Branch Manager, Office of the Participant Advocate, welcomed members to the first meeting for 2024. Donna also welcomed 7 new PRG members to their first meeting. This meeting was...
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This is a summary of the Participant Reference Group’s (PRG) recent meeting. The PRG consists of 23 participant and carer representatives across Australia. The PRG is a key platform to ensure the participant voice is heard and understood by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). Feedback from meetings is used to inform strategy, policy development, system and service delivery development and review, to support continuous improvement. Chairperson’s welcome Debbie Irvine, NDIA Director, Participant First, welcomed members to the tenth meeting for 2023. This meeting was a live event held over 2 days in Melbourne, Victoria. Debbie thanked PRG members for...
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NDIS participant Karan Nagrani says Australia has ‘let him be who he is – a blind, partially deaf, gay, man of colour.’ ‘I’m thriving because of where I am, who I am and the people who surround me,’ he said. Karan’s NDIS supports have helped him lead his best life, working at Guide Dogs Australia, and being active in his community as a disability and gay rights advocate. Reflecting on his accomplishments and the support he’s had over the years here in Australia, Karan says there’s still a lot of people who just don’t realise how lucky they are. ‘Travel...
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Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and Government Services Bill Shorten is thanking Australians for providing critical tip offs to stop fraudsters and crooks ripping off people with disability.
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In 1974 Kate Watkins got her first Seeing Eye dog, a moment she’ll never forget. She finished high school on the Friday and the following Monday, she was at Lady Nelson Seeing Eye Dogs being matched with Troika, a 2-year-old golden labrador. Since then Kate, who is legally blind, has had a further 7 Seeing Eye dogs – Abbey, Letice, Quarry, Qiana, Selwood, Clayton and now Kramer, her first fully funded Seeing Eye dog through the NDIS. ‘I’ve had a really good experience with the NDIS,’ Kate said. ‘The funding assists to maintain Kramer’s high level working standards and his...
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Belinda (Bel) Cini is in her second season, employed as a ‘water girl’ for the Geelong Football Club’s women’s team and the one-eyed Cats supporter can’t believe she scored her ‘dream job’. The 39-year-old NDIS participant from Torquay who has an intellectual disability said she couldn’t be happier adding it was her long-time friend Sam Moorfoot, the Geelong men’s team’s water boy who inspired her to give it a go. ‘I thought if Sam could do it for the boys, I could do it for the girls,’ Bel said proudly. Using her NDIS funding Bel engaged local disability provider Leisure...
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Grace is an accomplished singer and performer. Her achievements include co-starring in a 2022 West Australian Opera production. Grace, 38, has been blind since birth and was one of the first people in Perth supported through the NDIS. She has Leber’s congenital amaurosis, an inherited condition which affected the development of her eyes. She has also worked for the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) for 9 years, and brings lived experience to her current technical support role. ‘I help people at work with disabilities with their assistive technologies (AT). So if they are using a screen reader or other AT...
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Thursday Island Torres Strait Islander Charlie Kris lights up when he talks about all the equipment he has to improve his home, school and community access. Living remotely with most buildings built high up on stilts, the 14-year-old wheelchair user, who has spina bifida, found it hard to get into parts of his home, school and community. Using his NDIS funding, Charlie engaged local disability provider, My Pathway. Now he has all the equipment and support he needs to access his home, school and community and the bubbly teenager couldn’t be happier. ‘One of the best things I have is...
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Andrew Bryson, from Penrith, brings joy to those around him. In turn, they support him to live a good life, surrounded by love and free from judgement. ‘I’m a proud gay man,’ Andrew says. ‘I have an intellectual disability.’ Andrew’s message on IDAHOBIT Day is one of inclusion, diversity, and beautiful colour. ‘All the people are different but we fit together, like a rainbow,’ Andrew says. ‘I like this day, it is a good one. If some people are not nice about I am gay, that is not right.’ ‘When (we) talk about it all together in the world, that...