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Building a system of foundational supports for psychosocial disability across Australia
Published 2025The goal of the webinar "Exploring a foundational supports model for people with psychosocial disability: Presentation and Discussion" is to provide an evidence-based model that can spark discussion, and be utilised by the ...Open AccessPresentation -
The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia’s Print‐Media Discourse
Published 2025This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support ...Open AccessArticle -
Disparities in access to health and support services for people with disability in Australia: a scoping review of the structural social determinants
Published 2026Background Systemic inequities in health and social services exacerbate barriers for disadvantaged groups within the disability community, leading to poorer health outcomes and diminished quality of life. We aimed to ...Open AccessArticle -
Equity first: mapping who gets what is essential to re‐designing the NDIS
Published 2025Recent media commentary on the operation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has focused on costs, fraud, and preventing dubious provider practices. This discussion obscures the broader importance of the ...Open AccessArticle -
Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians with Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS
Published 2026While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ...Open AccessArticle -
Implementing community-based psychosocial interventions for adults with severe mental illness in high-income countries: a rapid scoping review
Published 2026Psychosocial interventions support functional recovery and social integration for people with severe mental illness (SMI); however, their implementation remains fragmented and inconsistent. This rapid scoping review maps ...Open AccessArticle -
Psychosocial Navigator role - key attributes
Published 2025The 2023 NDIS Review recommended the introduction of a specialist ‘Navigator’ role with expertise in psychosocial disability to assist people with disability in a complex support system. Navigators are important for ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Review of Commonwealth commissioned reports (2020-June 2025): themes and key findings relevant to targeted foundational supports for psychosocial disability.
Published 2026-04-10This paper synthesises the common themes that we considered in the design of the research-based Foundational Support model. These were extracted from relevant Commonwealth government commissioned reviews and reports, ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Submission: Inquiry into the Integrity of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Published 2026-04-17This submission draws on qualitative interviews conducted in 2025 with 86 NDIS participants, carers, and stakeholders from across Australia to understand experiences of the NDIS for people with psychosocial disability. As ...Open AccessSubmission to government/public bodies/organisations -
Targeted foundational supports for people with psychosocial disability outside of the NDIS: model background and rationale
Published 2025-11-04This paper provides further background and rationale for a proposed model for delivering targeted foundational supports for people with psychosocial disability who are outside the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Targeted foundational supports for people with psychosocial disability outside of the NDIS: model proposal
Published 2026-03-04To provide a draft model for delivering targeted foundational supports for people with psychosocial disability who are outside the NDIS. The aim is to offer a model derived from a research perspective as a basis for critique, ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Targeted foundational supports for psychosocial disability. Evidence from qualitative interviews with sector stakeholders
Published 2025We conducted interviews with 37 people who have high-level knowledge of the operation of the NDIS and supports for people with serious mental illness outside of the NDIS. We specifically asked all interview participants ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Targeted foundational supports model FAQ
Published 2025This FAQ collates questions received through our Webinar, 'Building a system of foundational supports for psychosocial disability across Australia' https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34509 (12/11/25), along with questions raised ...Open AccessOther