Media
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After opposing the Coalition's 'robo' NDIS reforms, Labor accused of going down similar path
December 12, 2025
PSRG Director Helen Dickinson is quoted in this ABC article about proposed changes to National Disability Insurance Scheme planning processes.
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New List Building better: Neighbourhoods to benefit children with disability Item
December 3, 2025
Human wellbeing is deeply influenced by the local environment, but the needs of children with disabilities are often left out when it comes to urban planning. With her ARC Future Fellowship, Professor Hannah Badland is working to change that. -
"The Impact of Disability on Mental Health" Webinar
Oct 12, 2025
PDA presented its webinar to mark the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Month and to highlight the intersectionality between disability and mental health issues, provide advice and support and bring together Australians living with disability and their support networks to better understand and combat mental health challenges. -
How people are assessed for the NDIS is changing. Here’s what you need to know.
Oct 1, 2025
The government has announced a new tool to assess the needs of people with disability for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). -
The untapped potential of neighbourhoods for supporting children with disability and their families.
Sep 4, 2025
Professor Hannah Badland from RMIT University explores why neighbourhoods matter for the health of children with disability, an area largely overlooked in Australian disability policy. -
‘Thriving Kids’ could help secure the future of the NDIS. But what will the program mean for children and families?
Aug 20, 2025
Mark Butler, the minister for Disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), announced a new plan to “secure the future” of the NDIS. -
‘Several teachers didn’t believe in ADHD’: families speak about how students with disability are bullied and excluded
Aug 18, 2025
In two reports released today for advocacy group, Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA), we reveal alarming rates of bullying and exclusion in Australian schools. -
How to address the housing affordability crisis for Australians with disability
Aug 7, 2025
For people with disability, new research shows that inequalities in housing affordability are not just in place, but have persisted for at least 20 years despite government commitments to improve housing outcomes. -
What happens if I go over or under on my NDIS plan? And what do shorter funding periods mean for me?
July 21, 2025
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is undergoing another round of major reforms. One key change relates to the funding periods in which participants are allowed to spend their budgets. -
Measuring the hidden costs of disability in Australia
July 3, 2025
Sue Olney and Sophie Yates discuss the links between disability and poverty. They also explore why we need to think about using both monetary and non-monetary indicators (drawing on the knowledge of people with lived experience of both disability and poverty) to capture the full picture of inequality between people with and without disability in Australia. -
Too many miss out: improving access to preventive health checks for people with intellectual disability
June 25, 2025
Regular health checks are key to improving – and sometimes saving – the lives of people with intellectual disability. Medicare-supported annual health checks conducted in general practice are a key means of preventive care, but take-up remains low. -
Labor’s NDIS overhaul aims to rebuild trust and restore vision
June 12, 2025
Labor’s election victory marks a return of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) to the party that created it. With Bill Shorten — a key figure in the scheme’s establishment — now serving as Minister for the NDIS, expectations are high for meaningful reform. -
UNSW Canberra finds past failures with technology tempers public servants' use of AI
June 9, 2025
The use of Generative AI varies widely across the Australian Public Service, as well as state and territory services. But technology failures and concerns over trust in government are casting a big shadow over how it is being embraced. -
Taking the pulse on AI at work
June 9, 2025
How much appetite does the public sector have for using artificial intelligence, which doesn't come without risks? -
'Gossip' partly driving the adoption of public sector AI
June 7, 2025
Some senior public servants responsible for their agency's adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) do not have the specialised skillset to fully understand the technology and rely on "public sector gossip" to understand the rapid pace of technological development, a report has found. -
Robodebt dampening public servants’ AI enthusiasm
Jun 5, 2025
Public servants are reflecting on past government tech failures when considering the risks and benefits of using AI for policy development. -
Senior public servants think GenAI will boost productivity – but are worried about the risks
June 4, 2025
Our new research explores attitudes in Australian bureaucracy to using GenAI in policy work. Given governments are expected to work in ethical, transparent and responsible ways, we wondered if public servants are more wary of adopting this technology. -
No one left behind: the urgent need for disability support outside the NDIS
May 29, 2025
Reforms to Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme have tightened access to NDIS funding for people with disability before alternative supports are in place. Today, Glenda Bishop, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh and Sue Olney from the University of Melbourne highlight the urgent need for disability support outside the NDIS, particularly for those under the age of 65. -
The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support
May 23, 2025
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) cost A$43.9 billion in 2023–24 and is one of the fastest growing pressures on the federal budget. As the government seeks to moderate growth of the scheme budget, some NDIS participants are finding they are no longer eligible for the scheme. -
NDIS reforms aim to make the scheme fairer. But we’ve found the groups struggling to gain access
Feb 17, 2025
New research shows significant inequalities remain, with some groups finding it much harder than others to be deemed eligible and access a funding plan. -
Building a more inclusive society: the role of neighbourhood universal design
Dec 4, 2024
The theme of International Day of People with Disability this year is ‘amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future’. -
If parents designed the new ‘Thriving Kids’ program, it’d look like this
December 10, 2025
Parents and carers of children with developmental delay or autism want the proposed Thriving Kids program — designed to support kids outside the NDIS — to be co-designed with lived experience, ensure no child is worse off, maintain continuity of relationships with trusted clinicians, and offer flexible, neuro-affirming supports across home, school and community settings