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Understanding the NDIS: the challenges disability service providers face in a market-based system

  • Written by David Gilchrist, Director of the Curtin Not-for-profit Initiative & Author of the National Disability Costing and Pricing Framework, Curtin University
imageDisability service providers face considerable challenges in the new, market-based environment.from shutterstock.com

On July 1 2016, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) moved from a trial phase to a full national roll-out. In this series on Understanding the NDIS, we explore how the scheme works, why Australia needs it, and the issues...

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Australian GPs are offered guidelines not relevant to their patients, and they often ignore them

  • Written by Gerard Gill, Professor, Alfred Felton Chair In General Practice For Rural And Regional Victoria, Deakin University
imageGPs tend to ignore advice from guidelines not relevant to general practice.from shutterstock.com

Guidelines for GPs are often based on evidence and studies performed outside of general practice itself. This affects doctors' judgements of the risk-to-benefit ratio of treatments and the performance of diagnostic tests.

As Tania Winzenberg, Professor...

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How a single word sparked a four-year saga of climate fact-checking and blog backlash

  • Written by Joelle Gergis, ARC DECRA Climate Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne

In May 2012, my colleagues and I had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Climate, showing that temperatures recorded in Australasia since 1950 were warmer than at any time in the past 1,000 years.

Following the early online release of the paper, as the manuscript was being prepared for the journal’s print edition, one of our...

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More parents are choosing to home school their children – why?

  • Written by David Roy, Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
imageFor some parents, home schooling helps to focus on a child's individual needs, rather than just on grades.from www.shutterstock.com

More parents in New South Wales (NSW) are choosing to home school their child.

There are now around 10,000 registered children who are home schooled each year in Australia. In NSW, the number has increased by 10% in the...

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  1. Turnbull should not be spooked by Liberal conservatives
  2. Election 2016: what will a re-elected Coalition government mean for key policy areas?
  3. State of the states: what were the issues and seats that mattered in Australia's state and territories?
  4. Remind me again, what did the Coalition promise during the election campaign?
  5. Turnbull celebrates victory after Shorten concedes defeat
  6. Coalition very likely to win majority after taking lead in 76 seats
  7. Politics podcast: Wayne Swan on Labor's next moves
  8. What other industries can learn from the failures of greyhound racing
  9. Patchwork, ironic, serious and kitsch: the best of the Archibald finalists
  10. The drugs made me do it: can prescription side-effects be an excuse for crime?
  11. Turnbull wins more crossbench support as government's numbers still to be finalised
  12. How Australia can capitalise on Chinese tourism
  13. Election 2016 reveals the end of the rusted-on voter and the death of the two-party system
  14. What went wrong at Aurukun School?
  15. Greyhound racing ban: NSW is looking at the industry from the dogs' point of view
  16. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the uncertain election outcome
  17. Three reasons why we should have seen Labor's 'Medicare SMS' coming
  18. A marine heatwave has wiped out a swathe of WA's undersea kelp forest
  19. Innovation culture has evolved beyond Turnbull's mantra
  20. UK and EU both need major democratic reform to survive Brexit fallout
  21. Robots don't just take jobs, they can help a new business grow
  22. Understanding the NDIS: the scheme does not yet address all the needs of Indigenous people with disabilities
  23. Why Antarctica depends on Australia and China's alliance
  24. Vital Signs: goodbye AAA Australia?
  25. Keating says Howard's Iraq war commitment brought the 'spectre of terrorism' to Australia
  26. Grattan on Friday: Coalition gets nasty reminder debt and deficit are important, like it once said
  27. When Australia goes to war, public trust depends on better oversight
  28. Electronic voting may be risky, but what about vote counting?
  29. Friday essay: the voyage of Nicolas Baudin and 'art in the service of science'
  30. Has New Zealand lost its way in tobacco control?
  31. Katter backs Turnbull, as credit agency puts Australia on notice
  32. Now you're laughing: the unhappy state of Australia's political satire
  33. One Nation, Climate Denial and those Jewish Bankers
  34. Chilcot’s lessons for Australia
  35. News of Zika vaccine might be reassuring, but it's too late for Rio, and do we really need it anyway?
  36. Australia must act now to secure economic ties with a rising Indonesia
  37. Australia could be about to lose its AAA rating, and here's why
  38. Please don’t explain: Hanson 2.0 and the war on experts
  39. Cheerleaders of the press don't win elections like they used to
  40. There's still much to learn by visiting the giant planet Jupiter
  41. Understanding the NDIS: many eligible people with disabilities are likely to miss out
  42. Understanding the NDIS: will parents of newly diagnosed children with disability be left in the dark?
  43. Co-living is demolishing the line between work and life
  44. Why Australians should care about the South Pole
  45. Bloody good TV: how Rake changed Australian television
  46. Barnaby Joyce gives some protection on Turnbull's vulnerable right flank
  47. Queensland postal votes could give Coalition majority government
  48. The lessons to be learned now the ABC's pulled its 'inaccurate' Wi-Fried program
  49. Weekly Dose: ice and speed, the drugs that kept soldiers awake and a president young
  50. Workers are taking on more risk in the gig economy
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