The future of the scheme was thrown into focus again yesterday, when NDIS Minister Bill Shorten announced he'd be leaving parliament in February. With an election on the horizon and having just ...

The Albanese government has finally struck a deal with the states that should result in the stalled Bill to overhaul the National Disability Insurance Scheme pass parliament. NDIS Minister Bill ...

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten has defended the release of a long-awaited list defining the items participants can and can't spend money on. Many in the disability community feel they haven't been ...

Bill Shorten has launched an extraordinary attack on the Coalition over delays to laws reforming the NDIS - one day after striking a deal with Pauline Hanson to make sure the disability insurance ...

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten says regulations that allow participants to access government-funded sex workers will be scrapped, saying it 'doesn't pass the test' for a service that is reasonable or ...

Bill Shorten is resigning from politics ... But no one was listening. Shorten’s role in establishing the NDIS began when he served as parliamentary secretary for disability in the Rudd/Gillard ...

In short: NDIS Minister Bill Shorten says changes to the scheme must occur to keep it going. Disability advocates including Greens senator Jordon Steele-John do not agree with the proposed changes.

Bill Shorten has rejected claims reforms to save $14 billion in growth from the NDIS amount to "cuts". Many disability groups had asked for the reforms to be put on pause and consulted further ...

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten urged the opposition to work with the government in the Senate to pass the bill in its current form. Picture: NewsWire/ Martin Ollman The legislation aims to help the ...

Bill Shorten’s plan for sweeping reforms to the $42 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme has been rejected by his own special taskforce. The taskforce also states NDIS recipients who ...

And we’ll get to last week’s pronouncements from Bill Shorten re the NDIS decision not to fund sex workers in a moment, but let’s start with: how did you get into sex work? Rachel Wotton ...

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten has sought to reassure the disability community that it would get input into the design of a reformed National Disability Insurance Scheme, amid concerns that ...