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Disability organisations rally against proposal to introduce independent assessments
By disability affairs reporter Nas Campanella and the Specialist Reporting Team s Celina Edmonds
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MarMarch 2021 at 4:20am
Melanie Tran says three hours is not enough to convey the impacts of her disability, as well as the support systems she has in place.
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More than 20 disability organisations have called on the federal government to abandon a plan which they say will force people to explain their support needs to a stranger in less than three hours, or risk losing their NDIS funding.
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