Senator Jordon Steele-John has accused Labor of failing听to draw on the expertise of听the lived experience of disability advocates and fears that听mistakes will听be repeated.听Nova Sobieralski and Zoe Wing report.
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
Disabled people can be paid as little as $2.54 per hour. Shaun Bickley听urges听candidates, companies and others to support equal pay for equal work.
Scott Morrison said he鈥檚 鈥渂lessed鈥 to have had two children who are not living with disability. Graham Matthews argues that considering the mess he's听made of the听NDIS, this may just be one of the few honest statements he鈥檚 made.
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Suzanne James听spoke to trade unionist and Socialist Alliance candidate for the Victorian Senate听Angela Carr听about Australia鈥檚 economic and social equity crisis.
Suzanne James spoke听to Angela Carr, Socialist Alliance candidate for the Senate in Victoria, about housing, health, National Disability Insurance Scheme听and the party's听plans to address the growing socio-economic inequality crisis.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme purports to support a better life听for hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities, their听families and carers.听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,听the federal government wants to disown it, down-size and destroy it.
Those with a psychosocial disability are being failed by the government鈥檚 arbitrary decision-making on who qualifies for vital health and community services under the COVID-19 lockdown, writes Marie Butler-Cole.
Minister for Families and Social Services Paul Fletcher announced on September 26 that the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) had reached the milestone of registering its 200,000th participant. That same day, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the final figures for the 2017-18 federal budget showed the budget deficit had been reduced to $10.1 billion, with "the single biggest saving [being] the lower than expected numbers of participants entering the NDIS.鈥
In delivering his third federal budget speech on May 8, federal Treasurer Scott Morrison claimed his government would guarantee the essential services Australians rely on. Presumably this included the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
However, Morrison only mentioned the NDIS once in his half-hour budget speech, and that was 25 minutes in. He said, 鈥渆very dollar and every cent committed to delivering the National Disability Insurance Scheme remains in place and always will,鈥 before quickly moving on to "stopping the boats", "terrorism" and border security.
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.
"Disability 鈥 not for sale!" was one of the slogans shouted by Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) members as they marched on Parliament House on May 10 to protest against the Victorian Labor government's plan to privatise state-run disability services.
HACSU听state secretary Lloyd Williams told the rally that Premier Daniel Andrews had broken a promise not to privatise public disability services in Victoria.
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