[2] In December 2023, Ness was appointed the Head Coach of the Rollers - Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team.

[3] We were preparing to leave the pier when the skipper thought he heard me calling "all clear", but the rope I was attending was still attached to the quayside.

When the ferry moved out, the rope tightened and sliced off my right ankle as neatly as a chef chopping through a carrot.

[6] On 19 December 1992,[7] at the age of 18, he lost his leg in a boating accident aboard a high-speed ferry between Rottnest Island and Fremantle.

Ness's leg was attached to the quayside when the ferry was moving out, the rope tightened and sliced off his right ankle.

[10][11] During a ceremony at the Perth parliament house on 9 July 2013, he was given replacement medals by the Australian Paralympic Committee, a first for the organisation.

[4][5] In 2016, he was selected for his fifth games, the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro[15] where his team, The Rollers, finished sixth.

[5] He was on the team that competed in the Rollers World Challenge held in August 2009,[5] where he scored 17 points in the match against Japan.

[19][20][21] Ness was a member of the Rollers team that won the gold medal at the 2014 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship.

[22] In 2000, Ness played for the Dandenong Rangers, and helped the team win the National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL) Championships.

[5] In 2009, he received the Medal of the Order of Australia "For service to sport as a gold medallist at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games".