Meanwhile in WA we are still talking publicly about why we need the NDIS in this state and we will keep on doing so.

6PR’s Andrea Burns spoke with WA Mums of kids with disabilities about their experience of the system here and how an NDIS would improve things.  …

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At last night’s community cabinet in the seat of Hasluck in WA, the Prime Minister met with EAC campaigners privately and gave them a good hearing about resolving the deadlock on NDIS negotations between Commonwealth and State.  In the public section of the evening she took the first question from Peter Darch, one of the best known EAC champions and a former young WA Young Person of the Year.…

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Given the relentless media spotlight on the politicking in federal parliament this week you could easily have missed the fact that the NDIS legislation that you have fought for and consulted on so intensely went through both houses of parliament. An important milestone totally missed.…

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 Tonight’s televised WA leaders debate with Premier Colin Barnett and Opposition Leader Mark McGowan gives   EAC supporters  the perfect opportunity to tweet NDIS statements and questions to both leaders. 

Tweet your questions to #wavotes. 

Ask both leaders for a starting date to begin no fault insurance in WA and to end the deadlock with the Commonwealth and get the NDIS happening in our state, as it is already in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania.  …

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Two days out from the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Canberra the Prime Minister has been putting pressure on WA & Qld to sign up to the NDIS.  And today on ABC  720′s Morning Program the Premier responded to a talkback caller on the subject.…

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Congratulations to one our hardest working campaigners Samantha Jenkinson on being recognised at the highest level with the Minister’s Excellence in Disability Reform Award.  Samantha is a social worker and local councillor who chairs the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Disability in WA as well as being on the Choice and Control expert NDIS panel, a Count Me In campaign coordinator and an advocate who assists others to self advocate.…

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In Canberra today the media started reporting our push to get MPs to stand up for us in their last caucus meeting for the year.  Ahead of our doorknocking of each and every MP with emails from their electorate the general community is getting to know we are in the nation’s capital and serious about getting a commitment from all politicians.…

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15 November 2012

The Every Australian Counts campaign for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has repeated its call for a funding commitment in the federal Budget to ensure the national implementation of the NDIS as recommended by the Productivity Commission.…

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The Prime Minister is visiting Perth this week and the WA government is trying to break the impasse over launch sites by offering to reshape the My Way trials into NDIS launch sites,  as outlined in this article : 

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/barnett-proposes-ndis-compact/story-fn59niix-1226464277387…

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Is WA still in negotiations to get an NDIS launch site - is a question that has not yet been answered and needs to be addressed. Over the last few weeks we have seen the negotiations at COAG get bogged down and at times be overtaken by a He Said She Said account of who was to blame for the stalemate. …

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