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ACN Autistic Adults Over 20's Social Club - Oatley This is a social group for autistic adults run by the Autism Community Network.

Teen with autism explains the difficulty of growing up without neurodiverse role models in the media Macklyn Woollard is one of more than 200,000 people living with autism in Australia. Despite the size of the neurodiverse community, the WA teenager says he struggles to find like-minded people being celebrated in the media.

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The Australian federal government is working on a new law that will make it illegal to charge more for products and services for clients on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The practice of charging more for the same product or service once it is known that a client is on the NDIS has been referred to as a twin pricing regime.

The Competition and Consumer Act in Australia already makes it illegal to engage in unconscionable conduct, but pursuing a case of this nature can be expensive and requires substantial evidence. NDIS Minister Bill Shorten has said that existing rules have failed to discourage the practice and that it should be illegal to have a twin pricing regime for the same product and service based purely on the fact that a client has an NDIS package.

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Federal Government to Outlaw Inflated Prices for NDIS Services as Immoral and Profiteering - GVS Australia The federal government is working on a new law to explicitly make it illegal to charge more for products and services because a client is on the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

"It is not our differences that divide us, it is our inability to recognise, accept, embrace and celebrate those differences.”

Unity moved us so much with this audition, it was certainly deserving of that second Golden Buzzer (even if it did mean breaking the rules... AGAIN!)

Unity get Simon's SECOND Golden Buzzer with EMPOWERING performance | Auditions | BGT 2023 "It is not our differences that divide us, it is our inability to recognise, accept, embrace and celebrate those differences.”Unity moved us so much with thi...

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Genetic Markers for Autism, Hiding in Plain Sight - Neuroscience News It is estimated that 80% of autism is inherited, but causative genes are hard to identify. Researchers have identified the ACMSD gene as being associated with non-verbal types of ASD.