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BUSY Ability and CoAct Partner to Expand Disability Employment Support

A smiling woman with long brown hair sits indoors. BUSY Ability and CoAct logos appear, with blurred shelves and yellow folders behind.

BUSY Ability has had a long-serving, 30-plus year history of supporting people with disability, injury and illness into meaningful employment, delivering Disability Employment Services throughout Northern NSW and South East Queensland. Recently announced, and commencing this July, BUSY Ability have now joined forces with CoAct, an organisation that offers national partnership with for-purpose service partners, […]

Look where Arne is now!

Two chefs in white uniforms and hats chat in a restaurant kitchen, surrounded by shelves of plates—ideal for NDIS hospitality support.

Arne Holst, a 52-year-old indigenous man who lives with disability, had always wanted to become a chef. Nearly two years ago he approached BUSY Ability to help him realise his dream and he was soon lined up with some work experience at the Pullman Hotel in Brisbane. Impressing his supervisors, this quickly became an opportunity […]

Skilling BUSY Ability Clients for the Workforce

A group of Skilling BUSY Ability Clients for the Workforce participants and BUSY Ability staff all smiling

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Rachel finds a new sense of purpose

A woman with long brown hair in a black polka dot top smiles indoors, with wooden walls and kitchen gear, showing a warm disability employment support service.

When Rachel Watling first came to BUSY Ability she had been unemployed for nearly five years and was struggling with self-esteem, her confidence at an all-time low. With the best intentions and believing that Rachel just needed to try her hand at something, her employment consultant at BUSY Ability put her forward for a traineeship […]