Disability Articles

First wheelchair-using astronaut touches down after ride to edge of space

Michaela Benthaus from Germany soared 65 miles above the Earth’s surface in 10-minute Blue Origin flightA paraplegic engineer from Germany...

Reform MP invites Mahmood to join his party, saying he ‘welcomes’ and ‘recognises’ her rhetoric – as it happened

Shabana Mahmood tells MPs asylum system is ‘out of control and unfair’ amid Labour backlash over proposalsMomentum, the leftwing Labour group, has...

Bus chaperone kept working at school during months-long police investigation into alleged child sexual abuse

Exclusive: Victorian education department apologises to mother who alleged her nonverbal child was sexually assaulted by the man. He denied the...

‘Stranded’ aged care or disability patients occupy up to one in 10 hospital beds in Australia, report finds

State and territory treasurers who commissioned the report say it shows need for federal government to pay bigger share of public hospital fundingGet...

New NDIS needs assessments will use technology to simplify process but advocacy groups cautious about change

Under the new model participants will be interviewed for up to three hours and will no longer need to provide supporting documents