At a time of record high youth unemployment, the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) may seem a blessing: it will require about 70,000 full-time equivalent workers over the next ...

Last year, 22.5% of people with a disability were employed, the highest percentage since the data was first collected in 2008. Thanks to a resilient labor market, more remote work opportunities, and ...

A 20-year-old autistic man has been "languishing" in a country hospital for nearly a month because his family cannot find suitable skilled support workers. Skilled disability workers are in short ...

Fiona Macdonald receives funding from the Australian Research Council for research on the workforce challenges of the NDIS. She is a voluntary non-executive director of the board of the Brotherhood of ...

The Alberta Disability Workers Association says the industry is facing a staffing crisis, and it has launched a campaign calling on the provincial government to take action. The Alberta Disability ...

Based on an entry level role, aged care workers can be paid 14 per cent more than disability support workers. The CEO of Spinal Life Australia said there needed to be measures to incentivise ...

Scott Smith hopes new government funding for disability services will allow him and his wife to worry less about their son's future. Smith, whose son has an intellectual disability, knows that as he ...