Category: News

The NSW Government is inviting carers and the community for input into a statutory review of the Carers Act. The Act aims to recognise carers, create the NSW Carers Charter […]

There is now a nationally consistent approach for supporting children with developmental delay and disability. This follows the recent release of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Early Childhood Intervention […]

Some rare positive news from the NDIS ranks with high expectations of a jobs and economic boom for NSW. The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has released a ‘market position […]

“My name is ‘Boosta’ and I am the latest live-in companion at Youngcare Share House, Wooloowin, in Brisbane. I came from the RSPCA at Wacol where I was subject to […]

Psychologist and retired RN, Kate Orr, is the winner of our Dragon Pro.  Orr is a director of Perth Mobility & HealthCare that sell and hire products for people with […]

Innovative workshop takes a new approach to support those with behavioural impairments after brain injury. Brain Injury Australia is running the interactive one-day workshop that has been designed to change […]

A new education centre to support students with autism and reading difficulties has opened in Brisbane. The centre, which is a first for the country, is located in Woolloongabba. It […]

When someone is seriously injured or becomes very ill, it can be a devastating and confusing time. After the initial shock of the incident and the beginning of treatment and […]

Australian carers were recognised at a special awards lunch in Sydney recently. In the past 12 months, one in eight Australians have cared for a friend or family member, which, […]

More Australians with severe disability report having poor health compared to those without disability. According to a new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), more than […]

One in five students has literacy difficulties and efforts to remedy this in our school system seem to have failed.