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Key meeting on the future of the NDIS

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Coming up in your breakfast update, Plea for Change so Tech can help the search in Nepal, key meeting on the future of the NDIS and why more people have a sports jersey on today. I'm Josh Bryant with the latest from Taped News. Experts are warning of a growing risk of disease after Nepal's floods as those who've lost everything face an uncertain future. Nelson Scott reports from Kathmandu. At a Buddhist monastery in the city's north, over 200 displaced people sleep in a crammed room, their homes covered in a coat of mud. The children here play seemingly oblivious to the flooding that's transpired, while their parents are quickly losing hope, their relatives will be found alive. In the affected areas they once called home, search and rescue efforts continue to be hampered by destroyed roads and bridges. Experts warned conditions on the ground are worsening with little clean water bringing

a heightened risk of disease. The Australian government has so far sent over 1000 hygiene kits to help address these issues. Nelson Scott Kathmandu. An Australian woman still searching for her boyfriend and his family missing in the flooding argues tech companies should release more location data. Sarada has spent the past eight days trying to piece together their movements, but Apple and Optus have denied requests for more information. She's told Reuters she understands the restrictions, but these are exceptional circumstances. In my personal opinion, I don't think that any of those people are really going to care if we see their data access records, just because I know that they would want us to save them as well. I understand the logistics like legally of it. I understand it, but I think that they should be a much bigger effort to try and help us. NDIS reform advocates are hoping to get clarity on what happens to participants who will be kicked off the scheme. About 300,000 people are expected to be affected by government changes designed to rein in the cost of the NDIS. The federal and state health ministers are meeting today to discuss the reforms.

Biltarot Care Chief Executive David Gunter says there hasn't been any indication of what support those participants will get. We've heard a lot about thriving kids, but we still don't know how the government are going to determine more moderate disabilities. We hear that quite a bit, but we really haven't seen any assessment tools for what it's going to look like. American feminist icon Gloria Stynum has died at the age of 92. The journalist and activist, widely regarded as a defining face of second-way feminism, died peacefully at her New York home. Friend and fellow campaigner Gloria Feltz told CNN she had a remarkable way of connecting with people. She used to say to young women who would say, well, I didn't know who you were. She would say, oh, but do you know who you are? And I think that's really an example of her empathy and her kindness. A man has been met on the tarmac by federal police after reportedly acting erratically on an Emirates flight to Sydney. Passengers on the flight are understood to have bound the man to a seat using cable ties.

And Australians are wearing their favorite sporting jerseys to work today, raising awareness of the importance of organ donation. Jersey Day was inspired by the gift Nathan Gremmo gave to six people when he became an organ donor at age 13. His uncle and the movement's founder Richard Gremmo says it's not about money. Jersey Day is all about having that conversation with your family. If you're wearing your jersey to school or work, going home and that's the catalyst to have the quick talk with your family, let them know you're organ and tissue donation which wishes how you could help to save a lot. In finance, one Australian dollar buying 72 US cents sport. The AFL's minor premieres have been stunned at home in the opening qualifying final Hawthorne defeating free mantle by 32 points in Perth. The Brisbane Bronco season has come to an end in the NRL with a 34-20 win over the Bulldogs. It was a big night for club great pain Haas who scored in the opening two minutes and

was also synbed in his final game for the rugby league club. At the US tennis open third seat Felix Aljalea seems being upset by Karen Hachanov. Ezi Magbagor has been named the Opel's captain ahead of the women's basketball world cup and Sydney FC signed American duo Kenzie Rolling and Kylie Delaney for the upcoming A League Women's season. I'm Josh Bryant. That's the latest from tapped news.

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