Media Release – Make It Real

23^rd February 2012–

 

Today the Every Australian Counts campaign has a simple clear message for all of our politicians. In 2012 – Make the NDIS Real.

The campaign will be enlisting our more than 100,000 registered supporters asking them to create a short one minute video where they tell Australia why they are counting on the NDIS.

National Campaign Director, John Della Bosca said: “The NDIS is a vital social and economic reform. Currently people with a disability, their families and carers suffer under a disability support system that ranks at the bottom of all OECD tables. The NDIS will provide the basic aides and supports for people with a disability. It will mean all Australians count”.

“A report from PWC last year found the cost of not acting to fix our disability system through introducing an NDIS is greater than the cost of the scheme itself”.

“The NDIS is the only major social reform on the political agenda that all political parties and all state parliaments support. This is a fantastic achievement”.

“The campaign has a clear message for our parliaments. Make the NDIS Real. We have bi-partisan support for the NDIS and now we want bi-partisan action to make the NDIS a reality.”

“As a first step, the Every Australian Counts campaign is calling on the Federal Parliament to come together and legislate to create the NDIA, the administrative body that will run the NDIS”.

“People with a disability, their carers and families are often isolated and their voices overlooked in our national political debate. That stops today. The Every Australian Counts campaign plans to assemble from now until the May budget, hundreds if not thousands of video stories. Each of those stories will be a real person, telling a real story about why they are counting on the NDIS”.

“The aim of this video petition is to shine a light in the homes of people with a disability, their families and carers. I believe that these stories will make the case for the urgent need for an NDIS.”

Visit Make It Real Video petition at: http://video.everyaustraliancounts.com.au/