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NDIS participant Maria Pyatt’s trips traversing her family’s Mildura property on her all-terrain scooter play out on a path paved in figurative gold.

Marriage can be tough at the best of times. But when one partner has a disability and the other is their full-time carer, the pressure can sometimes be too much. Gill Godfrey partly credits the survival of her 42-year marriage to the support she receives from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). ‘I think it helped us stay together because he had a lot of work to do with me, and he worried a lot,’ Gill says. NDIS-funded support workers help Gill 5 days a week, with 2 days reserved for family only. ‘The first time I went out with...

As this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) comes around, one of Australia’s most successful Paralympians and NSW Institute of Sport coach, Louise Sauvage OAM, reflects on her journey.

Marli’s love for nature combines with creativity to shape a vision of the life she wants to lead.

More than 6 years since she was diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening condition, Darwin first grader Aviana (Avi) McElwee is thriving – and so is Avi’s mum, Bethan.

Turning the streets of historic Williamstown purple and white for the annual A-T Wheelathon marks a double delight for founder and local, Luke Ogden. Luke, who was who was born with a rare condition called Ataxia-telangiectasia (AT), created the event in 2022 to shine a light of support on the disease. The NDIS participant said the event, which raises awareness and funds for the Brash A-T Foundation, would be even bigger than the first. “For this year’s event, there’s a different kind of circuit and it’s going to be huge,” Luke said. “It’s open to everybody. On the Wheelathon page...

Turning the streets of historic Williamstown purple and white for the annual A-T Wheelathon marked a double delight for founder and local, Luke Ogden.