Cuts to National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding would have a serious, lasting impact on people living with disabilities and their families.
Mon 6 Jul 2026 15.47 AEST
On this episode highlight of Dollars & Sense, Greg Jericho shares the positive impact NDIS funding as had on his family – and what it could mean if the government’s proposed cuts pass through the parliament.
This discussion was recorded on Thursday 11 June 2026.
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has released a consultation paper on excessive specialist fees. The paper can be boiled down to a simple question: when a specialist charges far more than their peers, or far more than the Medicare schedule fee, could government do anything about it? The answer is yes.
Australia’s criminalisation and detention of children as young as ten is a “crime scene and a human rights catastrophe,” disproportionately impacting First Nations kids, Senator Lidia Thorpe has said. In separate comments to the Senate inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system, which reported last month, Senator Thorpe explicitly named detention centres as “sites of systemic child abuse".
For decades, successive governments have kept unemployment payments in Australia below all accepted measures of adequacy - JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is even worse at 34%. The results of this are clear in recent official data on death rates and ACOSS' latest Raise the Rate survey.
