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February 17, 2023

Blogs / Submission to Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation of People with Disability

The Leadership Plus submission to the Disability Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability is […]

May 25, 2022

Blogs / Anna’s self-advocacy success

“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” Anna is a 52-year-old National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) […]

February 15, 2022

Blogs / Tell your story to the Disability Royal Commission

Do you have a story to tell The Disability Royal Commission? Lots of small stories add up to one big […]

November 12, 2021

Blogs / Get on the record with Eva Sifis and Disability Royal Commission support services

Eva Sifis was once a professional dancer who performed across Australia and Japan. Then in 1999, her life changed forever […]

August 23, 2021

Blogs / NDIS Participants deserve better quality decisions from the scheme

NDIS internal and external appeals processes need to be more accessible, equitable and transparent The processes in the National Disability […]

August 13, 2021

Issues / People with disability need access to COVID Vaccine

Leadership Plus is part of a coalition of more than 60 disability orgs which is calling on all Australian governments […]

October 9, 2019

Blogs / The Administrative Appeals Tribunal affirms less than 2% of the NDIS decisions appealed by participants.

  Only a tiny proportion of appeals that people with disability bring to the AAT are actually heard by the […]

September 25, 2019

News / Supporting ABI self-advocacy groups in regional Victoria

Leadership Plus and United Brains are running a project to develop and promote self-advocacy groups for people with acquired brain […]

September 5, 2019

Case Studies / Gabrielle gets the NDIA run-around

The NDIA gave Gabrielle the wrong advice and then didn’t fix it.  And they kept on not fixing it. Gabrielle […]

July 1, 2019

Issues / COAG tackles NDIS health handball

COAG Disability Reform Council has brought common sense to funding some essential health related disability supports. Funding necessary health related […]