NDIS Participants and Providers Australia

15/11/2025

🇦🇺 AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE! 🇦🇺
Australia has arrived in Tokyo for the 2025 Deaflympics — the 100th anniversary of the Games — with one of our biggest teams ever.

🔥 90+ Aussie athletes
🔥 21 sports
🔥 Around 3,000 competitors worldwide

This is the world’s premier stage for Deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes, and our team is ready to make history.

📺 HOW TO WATCH IN AUSTRALIA (FREE)

♦️ Official Deaflympics Live Streams & Results

• Daily live coverage, replays, and medal updates.

Let's watch the Games!
https://deaflympics2025-games.jp/en/Watch-the-Games/ .tab=0
Official Results
https://deaflympics2025-games.jp/en/Watch-the-Games/Official-Results/?utm_source=chatgpt.com .tab=0

♦️ Deaf Connect – AUSLAN90

• Auslan news updates, highlights, interviews & medal tallies on Facebook, Instagram & YouTube.

Deaf Connect backs Team Australia at the 2025 Tokyo Deaflympics
https://deafconnect.org.au/our-news/deaf-connect-backs-team-australia-at-the-2025-tokyo-deaflympics?

Supporting Australia’s Deaflympic Team: Sponsorship and Auslan90 News Coverage
https://deafconnect.org.au/our-news/deaf-connect-supports-australian-deaflympic-2025?

♦️ ABC News & SBS News

• Major Aussie moments, features and medal wins.

Everything is free, online, and updated daily for the whole community.

WHY WE MUST BACK OUR TEAM

Many Deaf athletes:
• self-fund
• train without big sponsorship
• rely on community support

Yet they proudly wear the green and gold.
Let’s lift them up and put Deaf sport on the national map.

🇦🇺💚💛 GO TEAM AUSTRALIA! 💚💛🇦🇺

Deaf Connect Deaflympics Deaf Sports Australia

15/11/2025

The Victorian Government’s decision to scrap specialist disability watchdogs is a brutal, cowardly, and deeply irresponsible move that will leave people with disability and the workers who support them at greater risk.

Despite strong warnings from Disability advocates, unions, and community organisations - the Allan Government is pushing ahead with a plan to abolish the Disability Worker Commissioner and the VDWC, tearing down the very same safeguards that they previously deemed as essential.

This decision weakens protections, silences vulnerable voices, and blatantly ignores the Royal Commission’s call for stronger independent oversight.

HACSU State Secretary Paul Healey describes this move as a: “…slap in the face to every worker who has fought for safety, dignity, and professionalism. The Government has lost touch with its Labor values.”

HACSU strongly opposes this dangerous move, and stands with advocates, workers, and the disability community. We demand real, independent safeguards, not a diluted system that puts vulnerable Victorians at risk.

HACSU will not stand by while safeguards are dismantled. Workers and people with disability deserve better.

Full article here:
https://buff.ly/1DA5zu3

15/11/2025

We Got Mail...

Im concerned with the popup message when loging into ndis...the wording makes it appear that myid is compulsory...I for one dont want digital ID

14/11/2025

SMH

14/11/2025

Today's Front cover of the Border Mail
Nov 15, 2025

14/11/2025

Inclusive Schooling

We give behavior charts... an F!! 🛑

Behavior charts and other public management tools in the classroom might be a quick fix for teachers, but do more harm than good in the long run. ⚠️

Why are they harmful, and what strategies effectively manage behavior while supporting students?

Listen to Episode 35 of The Inclusion Podcast to hear the conversation! ✅

https://www.inclusiveschooling.com/why-behavior-charts-fail-and-what-to-do-instead/

14/11/2025

14/11/2025

Lifestyle Solutions has been fined a record $2.5 million after the Federal Court found it failed to protect residents in a NSW Central Coast group home where 47 violent incidents occurred between 2019 and 2021. One woman with complex disabilities suffered repeated assaults, including biting, hair-pulling and headlocks. The provider admitted more than 1,900 breaches, including failing to report serious incidents. The court ruled the environment unsafe for residents and staff. Regulators say the landmark case reinforces severe consequences for neglecting safety.

ID: The image shows the Lifestyle Solutions logo. At the top are two horizontal green bars. Next to them is a headline in black text that reads: “Lifestyle Solutions ordered to pay $2.5m fine for ‘unacceptable’ violence in group home.” Below this, the organisation’s name appears in bold black letters: “Lifestyle Solutions.” Underneath, in smaller green text, the slogan reads: “everyone is equal.”

14/11/2025

Congrats 👏 👏 👏

People with Disability Australia When will the minutes from the AGM 2025 be available?

At the 2025 Annual General Meeting on Thursday 13 November, PWDA members approved the appointments of Board Directors Wildaliz De Jesús Arocho, Jeramy Hope, Jarrod Sandell-Hay and Tahlia-Rose Vanissum for two-year terms.

We are pleased to welcome the newly elected Directors to our Board.

Their diverse expertise, experience, and skills will strengthen PWDA’s work as a leading disability rights, advocacy and representative organisation of and for all people with disability.

At the AGM, we farewelled outgoing Board Directors Trinity Ford, Eva Sifis, Stuart Mawbey and Kevyn Morris, who completed their terms. We thank them for their time, for sharing their expertise, and for their tireless efforts.

Read more: https://buff.ly/s32ZiIB

14/11/2025

14/11/2025

Our latest Quarterly Report shows sustained improvement in key life areas for participants, including choice and control, community participation, daily living and health and wellbeing.

Data shows participation in community and social activities for participants aged 15 years and older increased from 34% at baseline to 41%.

In the report you can read about Elise, a 35 year old participant from Queensland, who achieved her goal of completing a Certificate III in hospitality. Elise says, ’Don’t let disability stop you from doing what you want. Someone out there can help.’

With NDIS funding she was able to get tailored support, including a hospitality-trained support worker to support her in the kitchen.

You can read this at 💻 https://ow.ly/w33t50XrxiO