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Man fights hard in battle with blindness

A Toowoomba man hasn’t let his battle with blindess stop him from being fighting fit.

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23rd Feb. 2020 1:02 PM

After being told he would go blind, Michael Cooper took up Muay Thai and is now fighting fit.

Man with disability gets support for first time in 45 years

An Oakey man with cerebral palsy has received life-changing support for the first time in 45 years.

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01st Feb. 2020 3:02 PM

Mick, Justin and Pamela Nothdurft from Oakey.

‘On verge of breakdown’ over NDIS support

Queenslanders desperate for help from the NDIS saying they are being left on the verge of “mental and emotional breakdowns”...

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21st Jan. 2020 5:01 AM

'It's criminal': Advocate slams NDIS deaths in Darling Downs

DARLING Downs residents have died waiting to join the National Disability Insurance Scheme, according to a Toowoomba...

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16th Jan. 2020 10:01 AM

People need to seek help if they believe they should be eligible for the NDIS.

NDIS helps Andrea give back to Toowoomba community

TOOWOOMBA local Andrea Nunn is passionate about giving back to her community, and the NDIS helps make that happen.

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11th Jan. 2020 5:01 AM

HELPING HAND: Andrea Nunn is contributing to the Toowoomba community, with the help for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Disability scheme needs urgent improvement

A parliamentary committee has made 14 recommendations to improve the "overly complex and bureaucratic" National Disability...

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03rd Dec. 2019 12:12 PM

The National Disability Insurance Scheme needs to be urgently improved, a bipartisan parliamentary committee has found. The committee has put forward 14 recommendations to the government, mostly focused on how to make planning processes better in the NDIS and the agency that oversees it.

Life-changing new disability centre to open

‘We’re here to make the Mackay community understand we’re all human – we’ve all got something to give’

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21st Nov. 2019 8:11 AM

Our Mates Place manager Damien Watson, co-ordinator Laura Nebauer and Unique Directions director Wendy Cherry.

Sneak peak at a ‘life changing’ new centre

Take a tour of Mackay’s newest disability centre, Our Mates Place, which will open to the public this week.

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20th Nov. 2019 3:11 PM

Disability organisation opens new room, plans expansion

ROYCE Wood’s life completely changed two years ago when he started shaking uncontrollably while at work.

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31st Oct. 2019 5:10 AM

(From left) Sharelle Riseley, SB Care, Royce Wood, participant and Cheryl Dalton, CEO SB Care at the opening of the new room at Toowoomba Community Care. Picture: Nev Madsen.

Fun farm launches disability jobs program

LIVING with profound disability can be a lonely experience with few options for employment, but Kerrie Coulstock and her...

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25th Oct. 2019 8:10 AM

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