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The purpose of this grant opportunity is to provide funding to eligible conference organisers to assist people with disability to participate in nationally focused, disability-related, conferences held in Australia. Funding may also support eligible conference organisers to provide accessibility measures that will maximise the inclusion and participation of people with disability at their conference. The grant opportunity aims to support organisations, especially those run by and for people with disability and/or their families, which have limited resources to implement accessibility measures at their conference.

The NDCI is a long-standing annual competitive grant round which supports disability conference organisers to maximise the inclusion of people with disability at their conferences.

The objectives of the program are:

• to support the vision of Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031 (ADS) for an inclusive Australian society that ensures people with disability can fulfil their potential, as equal members of the community
• to support organisations, especially those run by and for people with disability and/or their families, which have limited resources/finances to implement accessibility measures for their conference.

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to provide $41.92 million in 2025-26 in one-off funding to eligible providers to pay eligible aged care workers to take their leave entitlements at the increased wage rates effective from 1 March 2025 and/or 1 October 2025 as a result of Fair Work Commission (FWC) decisions under the Aged Care Work Value Case (ACWVC) only. 

This grant opportunity will only cover:

• 1 March 2025 and 1 October 2025 award wage increases for eligible aged care nurses, and 
• 1 October 2025 award wage increases for other eligible aged care workers, such as home care and personal care workers.

This grant opportunity recognises that accumulated leave liabilities for eligible aged care workers will have increased as a result of the FWC ACWVC decisions that apply on these dates, and the associated cost to aged care providers when workers take this leave will have increased. 

Eligibility:

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:

• Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006)
• Company 
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority 
• Corporate State or Territory Entity 
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity 
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Local Government
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Statutory Entity 
• Partnership, or
• Unincorporated Association.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.

Applications can only be accepted from eligible aged care providers that:

• have increased aged care worker wages as a result of the FWC’s ACWVC award wage increase decisions effective from 1 March 2025 and/or 1 October 2025, and:
• are an approved aged care provider of one or more of the programs listed below: 
  • residential aged care and / or 
  • Home Care Packages Program (until 31 October 2025) and / or 
  • Commonwealth Home Support Programme and / or 
  • Transition Care Programme and / or 
  • Short-Term Restorative Programme (until 31 October 2025), and / or 
  • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program, and 
• have eligible aged care workers whose wages have been increased as a result of the FWC ACWVC decisions effective from 1 March 2025 and/or 1 October 2025 and are employed under the following awards (or under an enterprise agreement that is underpinned by these awards):
  • Aged Care Award 2010
  • Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (SCHADS Award) (Schedule F)
  • Nurses Award 2020 

Please note: If you employ workers through the Indigenous Employment Initiative and those workers have eligible accumulated leave liabilities as of 28 February 2025 and/or 30 September 2025, include those workers in your claim.

The objective of the GPACI is to improve access to quality, proactive general practice care for older people who live in aged care homes by incentivising proactive visits, regular, planned reviews and coordinated care planning.

Primary care providers and practices registered in MyMedicare will receive incentive payments for providing their MyMedicare registered patients who permanently live in residential aged care homes with care planning services and regular visits.

Practices participating in The Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program (BBPIP) receive an additional 12.5% incentive payment on every $1 of the MBS benefits paid from eligible services, split evenly (50/50) between the GP and the practice. 

Participating practices must bulk bill every eligible MBS service (Outlined at Appendix 15.3 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines) for all their Medicare-eligible patients to receive the incentive payment. Eligible MBS services include the most common GP services such as time-tiered consultation items, health assessments, mental health treatment items, and chronic condition management items. The BBPIP incentive payment is in addition to MBS benefits paid, and MBS BBIs are paid independently of the BBPIP incentive payments.

Living organ donation is major surgery and carries risk for the donor. Prospective donors undergo extensive work-up testing to ensure they are physically and mentally able to donate, and these medical appointments may require donors to take time off work. If donation surgery proceeds, donors may require a significant amount of time off work to recover. The extensive work-up testing and donation surgery may require donors to travel long distances for medical appointments.

The program aims to ensure that taking time off work and out-of-pocket travel and accommodation expenses are not a barrier for individuals considering donation. The program provides reimbursement of paid leave and out-of-pocket expenses associated with donation.    

The program is not an incentive to donate. It is designed to help support those individuals who wish to donate but cannot afford to due to loss of income and the financial stress it would cause for them and their family.

The purpose of the program is to reduce the financial stress associated with being a living organ donor, raise the profile of living organ donors and encourage employers to support employees who have chosen to donate an organ.

o be eligible you must be:

• An individual / person

To be eligible for leave reimbursement, you must have donated a kidney or partial liver, or done work-up testing and be:

• donating in Australia; and
• an Australian resident (as defined by the Health Insurance Act 1973); and
• have a valid Medicare card; and
• 18 years of age or older; and
• employed by a registered Australian business with an active ABN. The employer must be willing to participate in the program; or
• self-employed with an active ABN.

To be eligible for out-of-pocket expenses reimbursement, you must have donated a kidney or partial liver, or done work-up testing and be:

• donating in Australia; and
• an Australian resident (as defined by the Health Insurance Act 1973), with a valid Medicare card OR donating to an Australian resident (as defined by the Health Insurance Act 1973), with a valid Medicare card; and
• 18 years of age or older

The Continence Aids Payment Scheme (CAPS) provides a payment to help reduce the costs of buying continence products from a supplier of your choice.

To get CAPS you need to meet all the eligibility requirements. The basic requirements are that you:

• have permanent and severe incontinence
• have an eligible neurological condition or eligible other condition that is the cause of your permanent and severe incontinence
• be 5 years or older
• be an Australian citizen.

The CAPS payment rate for 2025–26 is $717.10. The payment may increase or decrease a little every year following the Government’s budget process.