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Hi, I’m John Della Bosca, I’m the National Campaign Director for Every Australian Counts.
Every Australian Counts is the national campaign to bring about the NDIS.
After 25 years in politics I’m now spending my time campaigning to persuade politicians to revolutionise disability services in Australia.
Every Australian counts is your campaign, and I’m going to show you today, through this briefing how you can lead it.
The Every Australian Counts campaign is a unique, unified campaign.
For the first time in living memory everyone – people living with disabilities, carers, families service providers and advocates – have come together.
We have a common claim.
We have one goal.
That is to make sure the Federal government implements the Productivity Commission report and brings about an NDIS.
How are we going to do this? And what can you do?
To start, I want to share with you our strategy, where we are today, and some of our challenges.
Here’s how we’re going to win
First, Build a movement
Secondly, Spread the word
Thirdly, talk to MPs in our electorates
And finally turn commitments from political parties into action.
Remember politicians have a responsibility to listen; their job depends upon it.
And, we have the responsibility to make our voices heard.
First we need to build a movement -
Look at the numbers:
I in 5 Australians have some form of disability;
More than 360,000 people with a disability – as well as their families – would receive support through the NDIS .
Every person in Australia knows someone affected by disability.
This is a campaign that we can all be a part of.
We need to talk person to person. Because we’re only as strong as our numbers on the ground.
You can do it on the phone, on your computer, in person.
You can talk with your friends, your neighbours, on twitter or on facebook.
New technologies mean we can measure our support easily and show our strength to politicians.
We have set a target of 100,00 supporters by the end of the year.
The door to great change is ajar but we need to give it a push.
Next we need to spread the word –
And the message is straightforward:
The Productivity Commission said the way things work is underfunded, unfair, fragmented and inefficient.
And gives people with a disability little choice.
The federal government must take responsibility because disability can affect any of us at any time.
We’ll be continuing to host information forums around the country, so people can find out more about the NDIS, and meet other campaigners.
We need your help to hand out postcards and flyers at shopping centres and railways stations, or at local events.
And we need your ideas of how to get community groups, clubs and associations.
If something works, we want to share it so we can grow our numbers.
You can read what campaigners are doing in your area on the website.
Once the Productivity Commission has delivered their final report, we want you all to get together with campaigners in your area.
You’ll be able to register to host a morning tea on the website, and receive a DVD to watch with your friends, while you plan activities to make every Australian count.
Thirdly we need to talk to our local federal members.
We have a challenging political environment.
Every MP counts.
That’s why we need you to go along to your federal member and recruit them to be a supporter of the Every Australian Counts campaign.
On the website there are briefing notes to give you some facts and figures, but your story is what’s important.
Change involves people voicing their views and making it clear to politicians what they want.
Direct meetings with people from their electorates make a difference to politicians. They need to hear your story.
And finally our political strategy is to get support for the NDIS from all political parties.
Supporting the campaign is our team Kirsten, James, Daniel, Geraldine, Fiona and Pauline.
Most importantly our team also includes you.
We have five months to win this campaign.
And the clock is ticking.
On the 31st of July, the Productivity Commission will deliver its final report.
By law the Government has 25 sitting days to respond to the Productivity Commission and commit to introducing the NDIS.
That date is Wednesday 23 November.
Let’s recap on what you can do to for the campaign
Join the campaign on line
Sign up your friends
Donate what you can
And make sure your voice counts.
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I had an appointment this morning to get my CPAP (stops me snoring) machine adjusted, that cost me $50, plus another $380 because it was faulty and needs to be repaired. Earlier that morning I spent $180 on a new car battery, making me late to the above mentioned appointment.
As I came out of the appointment in Surry Hills (NSW) I was bailed up by a young man who I assume was intellectually handicapped and by his own admission and his appearance, he had cancer. He was asking for money, he needed $50 so he could sleep in a bed tonight. I had no cash on me, having been stripped earlier as mentioned above.
I managed to find a number of gold coins in my car which amounted to about $10. How can it be, that someone in his situation is having to find money to pay for a bed? How certain are we that he’s actually taking the medication he should be and on time? We have a lot of work to do to avoid people like this being caught in this horrible situation.
Great presentation! Well constructed and delivered. Anyone can understand and every one will appreciate how significant this is to the people in our families, circle of friends and communities. Here’s to 100,000!
Thank you for this, i have read the transcript, however for a vast majority of the community this English version may be difficult to access. if it can be captioned in the clip it will be easier to understand and have depth and meaning. another suggestion is an Auslan version, for the Deaf community.
The video will be closed captioned in the next few days.
Could you please tell me what NDIS stands for? It annoys me when it is presumed everyone knows every short form in the world.
I never vote or support something I do not understand.
BB
The NDIS is the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Hello
My precious sister, Michele Anderson whom we affectinately knew as ‘Mitchy” recently died on 30th April 2011. Mitchy was aged 54 years. She was born on 4th December 1956 and before Mitchy turned 1 year old my parents were told that their youngest baby was severely intellectually disabled. The specialist said to my parents, ” to take her home, love her and not to expect her to live longer than around 20 years”.
Despite great odds and challenges Mitchy lived a further 30+ years beyond her life expectancy. Mitchy lived a full life despite all the obstacles and she gave enormously to life and our society in a very meaningful way by touching the hearts of everyone she met. Over a hundred people attended her memorial service just 5 weeks ago.
However, it took not only our small family but the community as a whole to raise and care for her over so many years. Not withstanding, the greatest cost in a subtle yet most poignant manner, will have been the relentless emotional demands placed upon those nearest to her.
From my experience as a highly committed and loving sibling to Mitchy and during a time of my own bereavement, I can not but help to urge every Australian (when we acknowledge that 1 in 5 Australians have some form of disability) to support the initiative to make sure the Federal government implements the Productivity Commission report and brings about an NDIS.
Importantly, people, including those with any form of disability are living much longer and aging parents (Mitchy and my parents are now in their 90th year) as well as supportive, loving and caring family members are having to provide support to their loved ones for many years longer than perhaps originally believed would be required. We need to all think longer term and be proactive for the sake of our future generations.
As a society we need a more substantial support system – a better funded, more fair, effective and efficient disability support system. A system which significantly includes those with disability into decision making processes. We need to take charge as a nation and take responsibility for all of our futures and the federal government needs to lead the charge.
Life is precious and it’s fickle….. a person’s life circumstances can alter within a minute or a breathe. We need to insure we can all pull together. Speaking from and with experience!!!
Karen Anderson
I am a father of my 15 year old Rett Syndrone daughter that was born with a life time disability since her birth. I fully support this campain to win funds and also cut the RED TAPE to Centerlink paper works that stress us family’s and make us feel like criminals, You got questions that is insulting and personal about your daughter or son, or husban, wife, uncle,unty, nephew,nice, were most of the question are not related to the illness or what you are doing and the pressure to give information on what you earn or take away when you can not give a correct answer until the end of the finacial year, but then you are punish twice because Centerlink pressure you there and then to give a answer which you got no idea, and later on they accuse you of lying to them about your income. Family’s are sick and tired of being put in a basket of government incompetence when we are doing the state a very big favour by looking after our love ones not because it our fault’s. Thing’s happen that is out of our control but we as father and mum had a duty of care to our children and it is our duty to make sure their time and life time on the planet is in the best and comfortable way until they are gone. I have done that to my 15 year old daughter since her birth had care for her every day right up to the day I was sack from work on the 2nd of May 2011 due to work politics. I still love my little Rett Angel and will never give up dispite my hardship.
That why I fully support John Della Bosca with this campain, but I remember back in 2006 I aske then our
deputy Prime minster Julia Gillard for help, I never received any reply or answer from her or her office until just last month which I got a receipt that my email was read by her office after 6 years. I have really lost faith in Labour Party and feel cheated by her and her office. Now that I lost my job and again will need help from her office to assist me in talking to APRA about getting some money out of my super to help me and my family cope with hardship while I look for job again. Centerlink is no help as they just treat you like criminal it much easy to get funds from your super then filling paper works that I find insulting and stressful. That why we the family’s need this type of URGENT HELP LINE, that when incident like this happen to us We can be assure help not stress and government red tape that push us to the end of the line. It matter like this I know that all other carer’s would want and like to get help through very quickly. If you look at the ilegall imigrant’s they are put in 4 or 5 stars hotel bill’s are paid by the federal government and yet we the tax payer’s are over look and left behind. It case like this that create racist because of what government do and stuff up, and waste of tax payer’s money on stupid government policy. This is what we want to point out to our poly, that we come first not the boat people our love is our NUMBER ONE and our PENSIONER’S who work hard all their life and pay tax, must be reward during their final years of their life not treated like third world citizen. I hope now our Prime minister Julia Gilard should respond to my email that was 6 year’s old, as I now need a answer from her or her office that I never received. It bad and hurtful they only use us when is campain time or election time after that we do not exist until the next election as the last elaction was a wake up call for both Labour and Liberal that people are sick and tired of them and their empty promises. I can be contact on 0478152336 to any family members who wish to speak to me. Good luck to all.
I haven’t read the productivity commission report. How is it proposed that this insurance scheme will work? What is the concept? Is it like a levy to be imposed specifically to fund disability services? Whatever it is will it mean less fragmentation and a fairer go for those most in need?
Patricia Scott, one of the Productivity Commissioner explains what’s in the report in our icount tv section. You can watch the video or read the transcript.
http://everyaustraliancounts.com.au/patricia-scott-commissioner-productivity-commission-key-findings-from-the-draft-report/#more-2448
Very lucid call to action. When I get a chance I’ll write my letter but it won’t be about how “underfunded, unfair, fragmented and inefficient” the current system is but rather about how this facet of our welfare system is discriminatory. It isn’t this way with the pension, the baby bonus or the dole but for persons with a disability, it is like living in a monarchy in the middle ages amongst fear or favour. This isn’t a democracy until the huge gaps are narrowed and disability support is no longer about “who you know” anymore.
this sound very good i am trying to change my rented place for me to move around easier with my walker and i have been waiting for a while with disability sa
I am a mother of 3 children. A 4 year old boy and twin 3 year old boys. The twins were diagnosed with Autism in August 2010 and it has been a very emotional road to this point. The process of applying for assistance through Centrelink was very distressing, having to open the door to your life and what you live with from day to day very difficult. Everything is examined by a stranger to be sure you really are worthy of that extra $100 a fortnight! Please! While the funding provided for a young child with Autism is helpful it is not enough, this is a life time disability and they will always need support. Autism doesn’t go away when you turn 6. I support the NDIS not just for my boys but for the millions of Australians out there who need the government and the communities support. Having a disability should not make you an invisible statistic that is conveniently swept under the carpet by government.
It is important to families to have the NDIS established. My wife and I are carers of our 18year old profoundly disabled son. We also work full time. We have a huge mortgage to pay and had to do some modifications to our house with no help from any quarter. At present my son needs a Suctioning Machine, costing $3000/. Having this at home will help him avoid hospitalization. despite several requests from Specialists to Enable we have not been successful in getting one.
Over the past years he has been to hospital over 3 to 4 times a year with aspiration pneumonia. Having this machine at home will help avoid this and save the Government in high costs in health expenditure, Additionally, I am waiting for the last 6 months for a Bath Chair that Enable is funding. The one i have now was given to me by Variety Club when my son was only 12 years. He has over grown this and I continue to struggle despite my own health issues to cope with his care. Hope our efforts will lead to success. Thanks You Mr John de La Bosco for your efforts in this monumental task. Whilst in politics I personally know you did some enormous work as the minister in the disability sector.
I applude the work NDIS are doing and would like to volunteer my time to do what ever is needed in my area and am will to both host a morning tea or organise one in my area. I am a cancer serviver and after a stroke my life changed. I have had to re-learn certain things most of all I had to rise above the feeling of not having anything to contribute as I begun to believe I was a burden not only on my family but ,my friends as well. Through my faith, family, friends I know I am able to go on & do more. So here I am willing to support NDIS. Rebecca
You are An awesome Person Rebecca cheers :O))
tear drooped for you after reading your post you are a true Blue Aussie in my mind Take care Rebecca you rock :O))
In my job I travelled around many nursing homes and constantly saw young people in these homes. Often because of their high needs they were put with dementia residents for regular nursing observation. One home tried to admit a child under ten. Remember we are talking about people who despite physical or intellectual disabilities who deserve a social life with people their own age but also in a facility that can meet their professional care needs. NDIS could fund services like youngcare so that people have an opportunity for quality of life, frail aged parents don’t have to be semi-professional nurses and don’t have their health affected by stress and worry.
Congratulation’s NDIS there are thousands of stories to be heard from the Disability community. We need a voice for people with Disabilities and their Carers to yell “ENOUGH” fair treatment and equal rights are just the tip of the iceberg.
I am just thoroughly fed up with the whole system that fails us as a family who have had no ‘family support’ for nearly thirty years, no residential respite till our son was 25, very limited respite overall even now, bare monetary support for equipment because we have struggled on our own.
We have and continue to work and pay for everything without a break because we are trying to shore up for three of us for the future – not to be government dependent and because we are responsible enough to recognise that there are families worse off than us.
And we realise that government funding goes to much more important community projects (I shan’t begin to list them here) that are vote catchers or to the vocal minority etc etc!
We have never had First Home Owners Grant, Baby Bonus, Paid Maternity Leaver or any of the other govt funded ‘let’s make life easier’ schemes. We have struggled to buy our home and pay our way on our own – no handout from our parents, nor contributions from anyone else.
Our son is totally and permanently disabled and has been since birth and we can’t even get him included on our HBA because he is over 25 and not a student. This means we pay just on $6000 per year in medical benefits!!!!! A letter to the Marketing Manager at HBA following a customer satisfaction survey they had commissioned didn’t even rate the courtesy of a reply!
Any time he needs equipment – wheelchair updates and bathroom modifications to accommodate his deteriorating condition and changing needs – funding applications can take up to 12 months to process and be successful. Success usually means part of the funding with the rest having to be sourced and provided by ourselves.
We have both worked and paid tax since the age of 14. We both work and manage with meagre the morning care from 7.00am till 8.45 am which most morning allows me to get to work only 15 minutes after the designated starting time. My husband goes to work at 5.30 am so that he is home to get our son off the bus when it arrives at 3.30pm.
At our age 59 and 62 respectively with no positive end in sight and a child of 31 who has been disabled since birth and therefore has attracted no compensation of any kind I am really angry that on the limited occasions when we actually put up our hand and ask for help – which is reluctantly requested and which doesn’t in any way, shape or form indicate the depth and breadth of the private struggle we go through for the other 98% of any year that it is not easily forthcoming.
Can somebody please post the extended name for the acronym NDIS.
People who need care, teach us to care and to share and what caring means.
These skills and attitudes are precious … without them we lose some of our humanity.
We need to embrace the opportunity as a nation to say with one unified voice … that we can and will care, in ways that really count.
it’s about time the community wake up to demand action, it has to be an election issue, without that, politician will never listen, both State and Federal level, the State Government has a resposibility, which I believe they abonded years ago, let be a national and state forum on an annual basis, including one or more suring election time
I have worked in this area and am now living with a disability ,I was in a wheelchair three and a half yrs ago to this date it has been hard work to get where I am,and A lot of patience also , :O(
I still go the the POW Hospital every three months for my reviews am classed as a C4 spinal syndrome Incomplete ,there are so many Champion Doctors that have helped me there At the POW hospital and the staff do an amazing Job just had more surgery on my Cervical Spine :O)
I have been assaulted where I live a few times and still I stand :O) the road to here has been hard for me and my family and we just lost my Mother to cancer which makes this worse for me ,how I have been treated for trying so dam hard and to have all this just over looked bye the authorities, with all what I was tough at the POW how to live Independently :O) this I have been doing ,again I found this to be hard at the best of times as I walk now ,but not as good as I did before my accident people look at me and Judge me!!
So wrong my walk is getting better ,then like above have people that assault Disabled people :O( Dis heartens me to the Justice in this country.
I have no fear and am Positively Positive for that am seen as an idiot by the police one day ,on this occasion ,Like I mentioned , I can’t walk that good but try hard to ride ,now walked out of a shop and fell bouncing off a pole and as I have trained in martial arts in my day I just move forward with a positive outlook :O)) now this day the police were going to shot my pup
dealing with chemo with my mum took all my shame away as my Mother was my Priority ,again so wrong as I don’t have a label on my forehead no one would know am disabled >
I have had so much grief and always see the bright side , but now I don’t have faith in the system and how hard it has been for me,I think there is always someone worse off yeah and my condition is nothing compared to others this and music and my pup get me threw my days :O)) to have these people get away with the damage they leave behind a pores me :O(
Now I have a plate in my finger when I defended myself against an Steel bar Wrong hey !!!
Again I have good Doctors ,but this is just not enough for me,am I getting help with my finger,but have to wait for help with my disability which I have trouble in dealing with on the best of days :O( As I suffer Bladder and Bowel condition to go with my condition,along with sensitive all down my right side :O( My dignity is being tested is how I feel ,let alone my Respect and the work I have done for this Country in the past :
O)) I will stand tall and never give up so this never happens to anyone else!!!!
Respect to all cheers James
:O)) Stay positive I shall :O)