Graham Matthews

The National Disability Insurance Scheme purports to support a better life聽for hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities, their聽families and carers.聽Graham Matthews, Steve Warren, Terry Townsend and Lisa Macdonald argue for a needs-driven scheme.

Graham Matthews argues that now that the National Disability Insurance Scheme has matured,聽the federal government wants to disown it, down-size and destroy it.

I have been a 鈥減articipant鈥 in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) since July 2017.

In November 2016 I contracted pneumonia. After 24 hours of sickness and high temperatures my partner took me to hospital, where I was diagnosed as being in septic shock. Unfortunately, the medicines used to raise my catastrophically low blood pressure led to my lower legs and fingers becoming gangrenous.