Bill Shorten has demanded the states “step up” and help ease the pressure on the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
warning the Commonwealth alone cannot provide the reboot required to keep it sustainable.
“If you’ve got a business model where you are sort of mining someone’s supported independent living package for your own interests and not the participant, sell your business now because it’s not going to be worth much by the time we’ve finished with you,” he said. He blamed the states which, over the years, have cost-shifted by pushing on to the NDIS services they used to fund such as childhood development treatments, like help with speech and hearing impediments, and some services and equipment provided in public hospitals, such as feeding tubes.“They can’t retreat from supporting people with disability outside the scheme and on the other hand have a diminishing contribution to the NDIS.
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