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More than mental illness. How the NDIS review could help people with psychosocial disability

More than mental illness. How the NDIS review could help people with psychosocial disability

The review into the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has been released and it recommends some big changes. This is not a report that just moves the deck chairs – it changes the whole layout of the ship, including its approach to psychosocial disability. The NDIS refers to mental illness as psychosocial disability when it is severe and disabling. Clear definitions point out psychosocial disability is not a diagnosis in itself. It has a functional impact and presents barriers to equality when someone with a mental health condition interacts with a social environment. It can affect their ability to work,

Why Russians still support Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine

Why Russians still support Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine

Russian president Vladimir Putin has announced he intends to run in the 2024 presidential election. Putin is almost certain to win what would be his fifth term as Russian president. The news comes as little surprise. Putin has led Russia for 24 years and polls suggest Russia’s ongoing military campaign in Ukraine has bolstered support for him. Opinion polls In September, Russian pollsters the Levada Center conducted a survey of Russian attitudes toward the war in Ukraine. When asked whether they supported the Russian military’s actions in Ukraine, 73 per cent of respondents said “yes” or “definitely yes.” In February

Centre issues fresh guidelines for govt employees to receive awards from private bodies

Guidelines

New Delhi, Dec 12 (PTI): The Centre has issued fresh guidelines on government employees receiving awards from private organisations, making prior approval of the competent authority mandatory before accepting them. The approval, the Personnel Ministry said, may be granted “only in exceptional circumstances”. It further said that the award should not have any monetary component in th The move comes after it noticed that existing instructions in this regard were not being adhered to in true spirit. “Accordingly, it is, hereby, clarified that: awards given by private bodies/ institutions/organisations may be accepted only with prior approval of competent authority,” said

How the 2016 election could factor into the case accusing Trump of trying to overturn the 2020 race

Donald Trump

To hear his lawyers tell it, Donald Trump was alarmed by Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, motivated as president to focus on cybersecurity and had a good-faith basis four years later to worry that foreign actors had again meddled in the race. But to federal prosecutors, 2016 is significant as the year that Trump spread misinformation about voter fraud and proved himself resistant to accepting the outcome of elections that might not go his way. Even though a trial set for next year in Washington is centred on Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, lawyers on both sides

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