Opinion 18 May 2022
Photo from 2012 showing Labor leaders Julia Gillard and Jenny Macklin smiling with Every Australian Counts supporters Lynne Foreman, Kylie Fisher and Jacqui Pierce.

Explainer: What were the original intentions of the National Disability Insurance Scheme?

One of the things people with disability and families have been asking their federal election candidates to reflect on this year is a promise to bring the NDIS back on track with it’s original intentions. To look at why we all fought so hard for the NDIS in the first place. What were the ideas, intentions and principles behind the idea for an NDIS? Our friends from PIAC have written a new helpful explainer…

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Opinion 13 April 2022
Close up photo of a print out of the NDIS Act. There is a red pencil on top of it. Some words are crossed out. 21 is written next to the crossed out 2013.

Explainer part 3: New changes to the NDIS Act

Last year thousands of you emailed our Senators urging them not to support certain changes to the NDIS Bill as originally proposed by NDIS Minister Linda Reynolds. And your message got through loud and clear – the changes were changed! The NDIS Bill was voted through parliament recently – thankfully our friends from PIAC have another explainer to help us all make sense of it all…

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