Kate Lyons

Sienna has cerebral palsy, cannot talk and needs her lungs suctioned every few minutes. Her mother June ‘can tell you exactly what every cent’ in her NDIS plan is for

Many small changes since 2024 have ‘added up to one big cut’, advocates say, and the two biggest changes are due to roll out this year

The killings have forced a reckoning with real danger, but also a fierce determination ‘to never give up our Judaism’ and to express it publicly

Administrative review tribunal no longer authorised to alter a person’s plan or reinstate funding, agency confirms

Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’

Senior reporter Kate Lyons speaks to Nour Haydar about what the move to reduce human involvement in processing plans will mean for the more than 750,000 Australians relying on the scheme, and why some staff and disability advocates are raising the alarm

Exclusive: Staff were told of major changes to the way NDIS funding and support plans will be made during a recent internal briefing

Providers report a median operating loss of nearly 4% in the last financial year – with losses totalling about 12% over five years

Exclusive: NDIA defines machine learning as a subset of AI that uses algorithms to learn from data and make decisions or predictions

Some NDIS participants with disabilities are forced to choose between living at home in an unsafe environment or staying indefinitely in hospital