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Ruling comes more than two years after family requested support from agency for their son who suffers from severe anxiety

Indigenous leaders argued participants faced tougher welfare penalties than those in other parts of Australia

The situation ‘wouldn’t be accepted in Melbourne or Sydney’ and was made worse by Australia’s basics card that prevents ATM withdrawals, Labor senator says

Disability royal commission also hears Life Without Barries charged some Victoria residents ‘rent’ despite only paying $1 a month for the property

The AMA has joined a growing push for better welfare for those with incapacitating but ‘unstabilised’ conditions such as cancer or poor mental health

Labor accuses Coalition of ‘stealth’ cuts to disability funding as other families complain about recent changes

Carers use of methods such as sedating or strapping a person down more than doubles in a year

Eligibility criteria rule changes brought more denied claims, longer processing waits

Victoria records 1,933 new cases and seven deaths while NSW reports 319 infections and two deaths

Experts say the spread of coronavirus among lower socio-economic communities in NSW and Victoria was ‘utterly predictable’

Patients left languishing on jobseeker until disease is ‘fully treated’ – and diagnosis is terminal

A four-year wait for payments will disproportionately affect women, and children of migrants are more likely to experience poverty, the Senate has heard

Australia’s Mental Health Think Tank argues ‘this is absolutely the first and most decisive action the Australian government could take’

It was a fascinating day in Tokyo, where Great Britain became the first country in history to win medals in 16 sports at one Paralympics

Storey won her 17th gold in the C4-5 cycling road race with GB’s Ben Watson and Finlay Graham won gold and silver the men’s C1-3 event, while Dan Pembroke, also of GB took F13 javelin gold

Chief health officer says residents need to follow public health orders for lockdown to end as NSW wakes up to statewide restrictions

Victoria has paid more than $200m to people who have lost work while isolating after a Covid test, but NSW has yet to adopt a similar scheme

Seven pupils at Giant Steps in Gladesville are among those infected as two adults receive hospital treatment

Exclusive: FoI documents reveal more than 5,000 government payments for placing clients into jobs or education have been recouped since 2015

Victoria records two new cases as NSW police set up exclusion zone and threaten fines over protest