Spinal Cord Injuries Australia is part of a coalition of more than 60 disability organisations which is calling on the Australian government to take immediate action to protect people with disability from the COVID-19 Delta variant. The Coalition has issued an open...
Coloplast, a partner of Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, is holding a webinar series featuring Paralympic Gold medallist and Wimbledon champion, Dylan Alcott. In the last webinar, Dylan discussed breaking the taboo for people with disability. Here’s your chance...
The Building Better Homes Campaign, a coalition of peak disability bodies and agencies including SCIA, advocated for the inclusion of mandatory minimum accessibility standards within the National Construction Code (NCC). Although a majority of state and territory...
If you listened to our latest episode of Have The Nerve you would have heard about the differences in aged care funding for older Australians with a disability, with particular focus on funding if you are ineligible for the NDIS. In the episode Megan, from our Policy...
Following a meeting between the state and territory Disability Ministers and Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Linda Reynolds, it was announced that independent assessments (IAs) in their current form will not go ahead. As Shadow Minister...
In episode six of SCIA’s podcast Have The Nerve we discuss navigating support funding for older Australians with disability from the NDIS to My Aged Care. You’ll hear lived experiences from Susan who sustained a brain injury in 2005 and was able to get onto the...
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