Indigenous Australians And The National Disability Insurance Scheme

Author : Nicholas Biddle,Fadwa Al-Yaman,Michelle Gourley,M Gray,J. R. Bray,B. Brady,L. A. Pham,E. Williams,M. Montaigne
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781925021899

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Indigenous Australians and the National Disability Insurance Scheme by Nicholas Biddle,Fadwa Al-Yaman,Michelle Gourley,M Gray,J. R. Bray,B. Brady,L. A. Pham,E. Williams,M. Montaigne Pdf

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is one of the major policy innovations of the early 21st century in Australia, representing a new way of delivering services to people with a disability and those who care for them. It has the potential to transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, giving them greater certainty and control over their lives. There is a higher incidence of disability in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population than in the Australian population more generally, so the NDIS is of particular relevance to Indigenous Australians. However, Indigenous Australians with a disability have a very distinct age, geographic and health profile, which differs from that of the equivalent non-Indigenous population. Furthermore, the conceptualisation of disability and care in many Indigenous communities, particularly in remote areas, may differ markedly in comparison to more settled parts of the country, and there is the added complexity of a unique history of interaction with government. In considering these issues in detail, this Research Monograph provides a resource for policy makers, researchers and service providers who are working in this important policy area. Its major conclusion is that the NDIS, if it is to be an effective policy for Indigenous Australians, needs to take into account their very particular needs and aspirations.

Author : Mhairi Cowden,Claire McCullagh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811622441

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The National Disability Insurance Scheme by Mhairi Cowden,Claire McCullagh Pdf

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (known commonly as the NDIS) was introduced as a radical new way of funding disability services in Australia. It is a rare moment in politics and policy making that an idea as revolutionary, ambitious and expensive as the NDIS makes it into its implementation phase. Not surprising, then, that the NDIS has been described by many as the biggest social shift in Australia since Medicare. This book will be a key text for scholars and public policy professionals wishing to understand the NDIS, how it was designed, and lessons learned through its introduction and roll-out. The book addresses how the NDIS has intersected with particular cohorts and sectors, and some of the challenges that have arisen. It highlights the experiences of people with disability through a collection of personal stories from participants and families in the NDIS. The key insights from this large scale public policy experiment are relevant for anyone interested in social change in Australia, or internationally.

Author : Bill Madden,Janine Flora McIlwraith,Ruanne Brell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Disability insurance
ISBN : 0409336815

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The National Disability Insurance Scheme Handbook by Bill Madden,Janine Flora McIlwraith,Ruanne Brell Pdf

The National Disability Insurance Scheme Handbook written by Bill Madden, Janine McIlwraith and Ruanne Brell examines the NDIS from the viewpoint of a person seeking to access the NDIS and those advising or assisting them. The three key criteria are examined, along with the powers of the NDIS Chief Executive Officer and the scop.

Author : Rachel Carling-Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317150244

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Disability and Social Movements by Rachel Carling-Jenkins Pdf

This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophically, historically, and theoretically positioned, Carling-Jenkins is able to then examine disability relationally through an evaluation of the contributions of groups engaged in similar human rights struggles. The book locates disability rights as a new social movement and provides an explanation for why disability has been divided rather than united in Australia. Finally, it investigates whether the recent campaign to implement a national disability insurance scheme represents a re-emergence of the movement. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of both disability studies and social movements.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Aboriginal Australians with disabilities
ISBN : OCLC:966616622

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Plan First, Don't Retrofit by Anonim Pdf

Author : Micheline Lee
Publisher : Quarterly Essay
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781743823217

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Lifeboat by Micheline Lee Pdf

What ails the NDIS? Caring or careless? In this powerful and moving essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been "the only lifeboat in the ocean," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains what happened, showing that the NDIS, for all its good intentions, has not understood people with disabilities well enough. While government thought the market could do its job, a caring society cannot be outsourced. Lee draws deeply on her own experience, on diverse case studies, as well as insights from moral philosophy and the law. She begins by considering what it is to be disabled. And since to be disabled is part of the human condition, she also considers what it is to be human. This is an essay about common humanity and effective, lasting social change. "Unless you change how people think about things, you're not really going to change their actions or responses.""How people understand disability transforms how they respond to it. When they saw us as cursed or contaminated, they banished us, euthanised us or left us on the streets to perish. When they saw us as requiring protection, they institutionalised us. When they saw us as defective and in need of a cure, we were hospitalised and medicalised. When they saw us as tragic, they treated us as objects of charity. Now the NDIS has given us a new identity: consumer." Micheline Lee, Lifeboat  This issue contains correspondence relating to Voice of Reason by Megan Davis from Sana Nakata & Daniel Bray, Mark McKenna, Antoniette Braybrook, Daniel James, Damien Freeman, Rachel Buchanan, Henry Reynolds, and Megan Davis.

Author : The Law The Law Library
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1720606366

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National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Australia) (2018 Edition) by The Law The Law Library Pdf

National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Australia) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Australia) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 15, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Australia) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Author : Bindi Bennett,Sue Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781352004106

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Our Voices by Bindi Bennett,Sue Green Pdf

The second edition of Our Voices is a ground-breaking collection of writings from Aboriginal social work educators who have collaborated to develop a toolkit of appropriate behaviours, interactions, networks, and intervention. The text explores a range of current and emerging social work practice issues such as cultural supervision, working with communities, understanding trauma, collaboration and relationship building, and the ubiquity of whiteness in Australian social work. It covers these issues with new and innovative approaches and provides valuable insights into how social work practice can be developed, taught and practiced in ways that more effectively engage Indigenous communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012*
Category : Federal aid to services for people with disabilities
ISBN : 1921975598

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Inclusive Employment 2012-2022 by Anonim Pdf

By 2022, Australia will have a supported employment framework that provides economic and social participation benefits for people with disability, and for Australia. People with disability will have access to a supported employment framework that fully supports and enables their participation and inclusion in Australian society by providing services to obtain and retain quality employment. The supported employment system will align with other national frameworks that exist to provide support to people with disability, such as the National Disability Agreement, the National Disability Stragety, and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Author : Tahu Kukutai,John Taylor
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760460310

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Indigenous Data Sovereignty by Tahu Kukutai,John Taylor Pdf

As the global ‘data revolution’ accelerates, how can the data rights and interests of indigenous peoples be secured? Premised on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, this book argues that indigenous peoples have inherent and inalienable rights relating to the collection, ownership and application of data about them, and about their lifeways and territories. As the first book to focus on indigenous data sovereignty, it asks: what does data sovereignty mean for indigenous peoples, and how is it being used in their pursuit of self-determination? The varied group of mostly indigenous contributors theorise and conceptualise this fast-emerging field and present case studies that illustrate the challenges and opportunities involved. These range from indigenous communities grappling with issues of identity, governance and development, to national governments and NGOs seeking to formulate a response to indigenous demands for data ownership. While the book is focused on the CANZUS states of Canada, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the United States, much of the content and discussion will be of interest and practical value to a broader global audience. ‘A debate-shaping book … it speaks to a fast-emerging field; it has a lot of important things to say; and the timing is right.’ — Stephen Cornell, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Chair of the Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona ‘The effort … in this book to theorise and conceptualise data sovereignty and its links to the realisation of the rights of indigenous peoples is pioneering and laudable.’ — Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Baguio City, Philippines

Author : Michael Epis
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780522880182

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Every Australian Counts by Michael Epis Pdf

It is the most audacious and ambitious piece of social architecture since Medicare. With its beginnings in the shadows of the global financial crisis, the scheme succeeded against all odds. How? The NDIS came into being via a multi-pronged campaign that turned politics upside down. Instead of government making promises and persuading the people, the opposite occurred. Under the guiding hand of Bill Shorten and Jenny Macklin, Labor brought together warring disability groups and gave them a platform to tell their stories. The nation listened; Canberra listened. At the same time a team of the nation’s most acute economic minds designed the machinery. Their case persuaded the Productivity Commission, building momentum that became unstoppable. The creation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is a political miracle, a victory in the most difficult economic times, where all previous efforts had failed. It is a restoration of rights to those Australians who had been denied their fair go. Every Australian Counts tells that story.

Author : Elizabeth Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1304334992

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Housing and Indigenous People Living with a Disability by Elizabeth Grant Pdf

This research aims to shed much needed light on the nexus between lived experiences of disability and housing among Indigenous Australians in order to inform how the NDIS could best meet the needs of this overlooked group within the population.

Author : Bindi Bennett,Sue Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350313514

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Our Voices by Bindi Bennett,Sue Green Pdf

The second edition of Our Voices is a ground-breaking collection of writings from Aboriginal social work educators who have collaborated to develop a toolkit of appropriate behaviours, interactions, networks, and intervention. The the text explores a range of current and emerging social work practice issues such as cultural supervision, working with communities, understanding trauma, collaboration and relationship building, and the ubiquity of whiteness in Australian social work. It covers these issues with new and innovative approaches and provides valuable insights into how social work practice can be developed, taught and practiced in ways that more effectively engage Indigenous communities.

Author : Maggie Walter,Tahu Kukutai,Angela Gonzales
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197528778

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The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology by Maggie Walter,Tahu Kukutai,Angela Gonzales Pdf

Indigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social world. This core premise is demonstrated here via the use of the concept of the Indigenous Lifeworld in reference to the dispossessed Indigenous Peoples from Anglo-colonized first world nations. Indigenous lifeworld is built around dual intersubjectivities: within peoplehood, inclusive of traditional and ongoing culture, belief systems, practices, identity, and ways of understanding the world; and within colonized realties as marginalized peoples whose everyday life is framed through their historical and ongoing relationship with the colonizer nation state. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology is, in part, a response to the limited space allowed for Indigenous Peoples within the discipline of sociology. The very small existing sociological literature locates the Indigenous within the non-Indigenous gaze and the Eurocentric structures of the discipline reflect a continuing reluctance to actively recognize Indigenous realities within the key social forces literature of class, gender, and race at the discipline's center. But the ambition of this volume, its editors, and its contributors is larger than a challenge to this status quo. They do not speak back to sociology, but rather, claim their own sociological space. The starting point is to situate Indigenous sociology as sociology by Indigenous sociologists. The authors in The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology, all leading and emerging Indigenous scholars, provide an authoritative, state of the art survey of Indigenous sociological thinking. The contributions in this Handbook demonstrate that the Indigenous sociological voice is a not a version of the existing sub-fields but a new sociological paradigm that uses a distinctively Indigenous methodological approach.

Author : Karen Soldatic,Michelle Fitts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1741084830

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Illusionary Economies of Disability Support by Karen Soldatic,Michelle Fitts Pdf

The Disability Support Pension (DSP) is the primary income support payment by Australians living with a disability of workforce age, but are not attached to the labour market in a significant manner. The Disability Support Pension has been a central component of the Australian social security system. Since the early 2000s, the Australian Government has put in place a series of changes to the DSP eligibility criteria and the assessment process. Despite major changes, there has been limited attention of the implications persons with disabilities, and even less for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living with disability. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians experience approximately twice the rate of disability as non-Indigenous Australians.This report examines the impact to Indigenous Australians in the community applying for the DSP and service providers who ensure they have appropriate support and access to apply for the DSP. This report draws directly on data from interviews and focus groups conducted in four jurisdictions across Australia between March 2017 and September 2018 with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who self-identify as living with disability and have applied or are in the process of applying for the DSP. The data from community members is augmented with interviews and focus groups with medical practitioners and non-medical service providers who have high levels of contact with these community members as well as representatives from Local Government. A number of recommendations to improve the current process are outlined.