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A specialist bus provided for free to Scope when it took over management of a state government-owned Camberwell disability home, which Scope is now attempting to sell to the home’s new managers.

Disability homes scrap bus services, tell residents to take taxis, trains

One of the state’s largest disability service providers is withdrawing its transport services due to financial pressures and trying to sell off the buses they were given for free.

  • Grant McArthur

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Cheryl Soafkin and her son Jeremy, 37, who lives with severe autism. For 17 years, Jeremy has lived in a disability group home in Camberwell, which will soon be closed by its operator, Scope.

‘They’re gaslighting us’: More disability homes close as state funding ends

More than 80 group homes for disabled residents have closed, upending the lives of some of Victoria’s most vulnerable people.

  • Grant McArthur and Kieran Rooney
Peter, Damien and Elena Christie outside the Fisher Street Centre in Malvern East.

‘Major downfall’: Concerns for people with disabilities as council moves to sell care centre

Pleas to stop a vulnerable group’s “favourite place in the whole world” from being demolished didn’t stop the City of Stonnington council voting to sell off land amid tight budget conditions.

  • Rachael Ward
Lucia Porteus Lucia was diagnosed with ADHD at 7 years old.

Lucia had time-blindness and missed social cues. Finding out why changed her life

NSW GPs will soon be able to diagnose ADHD under reforms to make it easier and cheaper for people to get treatment.

  • Kate Aubusson
Nick Rushworth and his wife Reina Michaelson.

Written off after a head injury, Nick became a fighting force for thousands

After a near-fatal bike accident, Nick Rushworth channelled his “firing up” powers as a journalist to push the cause for brain injury survivors.

  • Wendy Carlisle
Cooper Smith in action at the 2024 Australian Open tennis tournament music stage.

‘They can see past the disability’: Cerebral palsy no barrier for popular DJ

Cooper Smith says taking his place behind the decks at top music festivals makes him feel free and connected.

  • Carolyn Webb
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Born with cerebral palsy, Cooper Smith says being a DJ makes him feel free and connected.
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'I just love it', says Cooper Smith, whose DJ career is taking off.

Born with cerebral palsy, Cooper Smith says being a DJ makes him feel free and connected.

Jarrod Clune, 50, Maiwenna Goasdoue, 49, and their sons Leon, 16, and Otis, 14, were found at the Mott Close property on Friday morning.

This was no act of love. Autism is not a justification for murder

Let’s be clear: killing disabled people is not mercy. Our murder is not excusable. Disabled people deserve to live.

  • Laura Pettenuzzo
Lenard Swanepoel-Trollip launched legal action against his sister, Jennifer McAlpine, in December.

Perth siblings’ court case in limbo over NDIS director’s overseas bankruptcy

A Supreme Court fight between siblings at the centre of a troubled NDIS provider has taken a fresh turn after a lawyer told the court he can’t take instructions from a company’s acting director.

  • Carla Hildebrandt
Jarrod Clune, 50, Maiwenna Goasdoue, 49, and their sons Leon, 16, and Otis, 14, were found at the Mott Close property on Friday morning.

The hidden struggle behind closed doors at a quiet Mosman Park home

To the outside world, they were a loving family whose children had attended a top-tier school. But behind closed doors, a “groaning” support system was weighing on two parents.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt