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Talking Disability is your go-to source for news, insights, and real stories from the disability community.

Empowering voices, advocating for inclusion, and sparking meaningful conversations. 💙

20/10/2026

Cooking every day isn’t simple when you’re living with disability, pain or fatigue.

Lite n’ Easy delivers ready-made meals to your door, and NDIS participants with meal support in their plan may be eligible. Check with your plan manager.

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For people living with disability, chronic pain or fatigue, getting dinner on the table can be exhausting. Here’s how...

19/10/2026

Fear of fraud is driving fast NDIS reform, and NDIS participant and advocate Tracy Leigh says it’s costing the people the scheme was built for. She spent two years being wrongly refused before getting in, and says she’s had to fight to keep her support ever since.

Participants, she argues, are being painted with the same brush as shonky providers, even though many use their funding to work and pay tax. She wants the NDIS Future Generations Act repealed and reform to start again, with real input from people with lived experience. This is part one of a two-part series.

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NDIS participant and advocate Tracy Leigh says fear of “shonks” has driven reform that overlooks the people...

15/10/2026

Three years after the Disability Royal Commission’s final report, an independent review has found none of ten key recommendations has been fully implemented. Four show no real action, and one, better coordination of NDIS support, is actually going backwards.

Of the Commonwealth’s 172 recommendations, only eight have been fully carried out so far, and the taskforce monitoring progress has been disbanded. As the author puts it, the Royal Commission was meant to drive reform, not just measure the gap.

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Three years after the Disability Royal Commission’s final report, an independent review finds none of ten key...

13/10/2026

Free guides, Adelaide! We’re coming to DAL Expo 2026.

Swing by Booth 91B on Friday and Saturday for your free copy of the Disability Support Guide.

10am to 3pm, at the Jubilee Pavilion, Adelaide Showground. See you there!

12/10/2026

Five clients have just made history at Minda, graduating the first cohort of a pilot vocational program: a Certificate I in Access to Vocational Pathways, delivered with the South Australian Learning Centre. It covers real work-readiness skills like reading workplace signs, teamwork and digital literacy.

Graduate Marcus says he’s learnt “to be on time, talk to people, work in a team, solve problems and do things by myself,” and hopes to work at Bunnings one day. The pilot may now become an ongoing offering.

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Five clients have graduated Minda’s new vocational pathway pilot, building work-readiness skills, confidence and...

11/10/2026

A great partnership on the Limestone Coast: Minda and the Mount Gambier Pioneers basketball club are opening up NBL1 South games to people with intellectual disability, and it's already changing lives. Minda client Tyne now volunteers at games and training, selling raffle tickets and chatting with players.

Pioneers President Tom Kosch says it best: "This partnership is built on shared values of inclusion, opportunity and community."

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A partnership between Minda and the Mount Gambier Pioneers is helping people with intellectual disability build...

06/10/2026

Proposed NDIS changes could mean a return to block funding for home and living supports, shifting decisions away from participants and back to providers. Around 1,400 small plan managers could be squeezed out as the market consolidates around big providers.

One mother, Odessa, describes losing self-managed funding for her non-verbal autistic daughter Summer, and needing therapist sign-off just to buy assistive tech she'd already researched herself. Her point lands hard: "when choosing resources that support them, that decision is left to someone who may spend an hour with your child every other week."

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The NDIS put the disabled community in the driver’s seat of their care. They were on the ground experiencing their...

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