Their shared view would seem to be that social inclusion is a vague and meaningless goal, the pursuit of which directs funds away from worthwhile services such as disability care and workforce training. But they miss the point. In a recent article in...

Coalition has vowed to scrap Julia Gillard's social inclusion portfolio and funnel the savings into a national disability insurance scheme. As opposition disabilities spokesman Mitch Fifield accused the government of spending $3.3 million a year on...

Some of the draft laws are due to come into effect on January 1. But the manager of opposition business in the upper house, Mitch Fifield, is outraged. "This motion institutes a rolling guillotine," he told parliament on Monday. "This motion seeks to...