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Review calls for total rethink of how governments offer disability support. Here is everything you need to know

Findings from an extensive review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) have been released with ideas on how to transform it. Led by co-chairs Bruce Bonyhady and Lisa Paul, the review heard from around 10,000 people before making 26 recommendations with 139 supporting actions. Presenting their findings, co-chairs wrote:

The Albanese government has promised extra funding for health and to extend its top-up of the GST, in exchange for the states undertaking more of the heavy lifting on disability to help curb the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s cost blowout.

Narratives about the so-called ‘epidemic’ of autism typically do not make the distinction between autistic people and diagnoses

Anthony Albanese has negotiated deals with states and territories on extra health funding, the GST carve-up and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

It’s always a rush at the end of the year to push out announcements, but the Albanese government, with an overloaded work program, is finding itself jammed as Christmas bears down.

Lizzie Blandthorn accuses the federal government of not providing enough information, but Bill Shorten is ‘quietly positive’ reforms can be agreed

NT ditches zero emissions policy amid gas industry objections; proposed new laws for re-detention of migrants; Cop28 president claims ‘no science’ for fossil fuel phase-out

Halfway into its first term, the big question is whether the Albanese government is in a temporary bad patch, or at the beginning of a downhill slide.