Category: NDIS

Linda Reynolds more than six months late in declaring series of share trades on register | Australian politics | The Guardian

Once head of the the NDIS which still operates uner Reynolds Rules and spends a record amount of time and money cutting people off from the scheme finds that she shouldn’t be judged for her transgresions in the same manner. In Morrison’s government you simply blame someone else.

Coalition senator blames ‘administrative oversight’ for delayed disclosure of shares including in Electro Optic Systems, which had previously been awarded millions in government contracts

Linda Reynolds more than six months late in declaring series of share trades on register | Australian politics | The Guardian

NDIS crackdown welcomed by advocates as organised gangs infiltrate scheme | Australia news | The Guardian

Person pushing a wheelchair

The LNP  made it harder to gain access by those that needed help but so much easier for systemic fraud to be conducted by providers.  Labor’s Bill Shorten intends to reverse that fraud, not the access by the needy. We saw the same system occur in the provision of Education, Childminding, Employment, and Jobkeeper services. Frydenberg willingly increased x4 funds to Guide Dogs Australia  $3-4 M for 35 dogs. He  proved he needed one himself.  Meanwhile, he and the LNP kept calling themselves the better managers.

Oh yes The ALP was accused of being much worse because of Pink Bats in comparison a relatively smaller issue.

Experts say scheme ‘not working well for everyone’ after Bill Shorten says Labor will target fraudsters

Source: NDIS crackdown welcomed by advocates as organised gangs infiltrate scheme | Australia news | The Guardian

NDIS overhaul: a solution to a $60bn cost blowout or an attack on the scheme’s soul? | Australia news | The Guardian

Carl Thompson

They’re all talking about the cost of everything. And they haven’t actually talked about the net benefit Carl Thompson

Source: NDIS overhaul: a solution to a $60bn cost blowout or an attack on the scheme’s soul? | Australia news | The Guardian

Falling off the ‘magical cliff’: Call for review of NDIS age ‘discrimination’

Bill Moss would like to see the government remove the age cap on who is eligible to join the NDIS.

“If a person loses their legs in a motorbike accident and they are 64, they’re entitled to NDIS benefits. If they do when they’re 65, they’re not,” Mr Moss told The Age and the Herald.

Source: Falling off the ‘magical cliff’: Call for review of NDIS age ‘discrimination’

NDIS funds to be ‘repurposed’ for drought relief under Morrison plan

When private enterprise agriculture fails the handicapped and the weakest members in our community have to pay give me your blind, paralysed and mentally ill and we’ll put them at the back of the queue vote LNP. NDIS hasn’t been repurposed it’s been raided. (ODT)

Disability advocates have slammed Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to “repurpose” $3.9 billion originally set aside for the NDIS to pay for drought relief, but the plan has been cautiously welcomed by farmers.

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