National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

Suzanne James speaks to WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John about changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme which passed in August.

Bill Shorten, the outgoing National Disability Insurance Scheme minister, should have addressed the disabled community’s concerns about a debt collection function buried in his new law. Suzanne James reports.

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Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen are joined by Nova Sobieralski to discuss Labor's attacks on the CFMEU and the NDIS amendment bill, and talk to socialist council candidate Rachel Evans

Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John

WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John has slammed Labor’s failure to act on the disability royal commission’s key recommendations, saying the party has failed the disability community. Suzanne James reports.

Suzanne James talks to WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John about the Albanese government’s betrayal of the disability community by ignoring the bulk of the royal commission’s recommendations while defunding the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

A new draft list of NDIS “supports” shows why a list is the wrong tool. Many of the supports on the exclusion list are better value for money than items that have been included, argues Nova Sobieralski.

Pre-class Aboriginal society suggests that people with significant impediments were integrated into community life, participating and contributing to society. Graham Matthews looks at the relationship between people’s disability and the means of production.

A Labor bill, currently in parliament, looks like it wants to shift the cost of NDIS to the states and territories. Graham Matthews argues the debate over future NDIS funding is an argument among thieves.

The final report of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Review is difficult reading for many people with disability because its central aim is cost-cutting, argues Graham Matthews.

Suzanne James looks at the NDIS review panel's interim report and finds even the people who built the NDIS are still struggling to clearly define all its moving parts.

 

Labor’s threat to slash-and-burn NDIS funding gives the lie to Jim Chalmers’ claim that the budget would offer “more help for some of the most vulnerable in our community”, argues Graham Matthews.

Cost of living

For those of us forced to live with it, Labor’s first budget since 2013 is both a missed opportunity and a threat of worse things to come, argues Graham Matthews.