With NDIS costs predicted to rise from $44.3bn to more than $90bn by the end of the decade, Labor is trying to reform the scheme
turned to the issue of sex work this week after the NDIS minister, Bill Shorten, vowed to ban it from being funded by the scheme.Here’s what you need to know.With the federal budget predicting NDIS costs will rise from $44.3bn in 2024 to more than $90bn by the end of the decade, the Albanese government is trying to put the scheme – which supports more than 600,000 people with disability – on a more financially sustainable footing.for a bill that forms part of that overhaul.
through the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to the federal court, which eventually found the NDIS Act “does not expressly exclude such activities from being funded supports”. Shorten said he had “zero interest in anyone’s private life” and it was not a decision about denying people what was “reasonable and necessary”, the key principle that underpins the scheme.
Advocates and researchers say in total, it would be a small number of people – and therefore a very small cost, relative to other services. Sex worker and academic Rachel Wotton, who is completing a PhD on the experiences of people with disability who access sex worker services, says only five of the 108 participants in her research had used NDIS funding. The research did not cover when participants had used the funding but she conducted the interviews in 2022.
“It has been put forward to garner support for the government in creating limitations on how services may be funded,” Isbister says. “But because of the low numbers involved, this in no way addresses the major issues of sustainability which the government is required to address.”
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