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What is an NDIS?

Depending on life’s chances, any one of us could be living with a permanent disability that significantly reduces our ability to independently care for ourselves. On average, every 30 minutes someone in Australia is diagnosed with a significant disability.

Yet in Australia, we have a cruel lottery where the services and support people with disability, their families and carers receive depends on where they live, what disability they have, and how they attained that disability.

As the Productivity Commission found, while there are pockets of success in some states, no disability supp...

This is despite the enormous effort of disability workers on the ground helping to provide support a...

Instead, people with disability are caught in a system that responds to crisis; a system that drips ...

The Prime Minister released the Productivity Commission’s report on 10 August 2011 and all governments agreed with the recommendatio...

An NDIS will turn the way we currently provide disability services on its head. Rather than funding ...

It will recognise that disability is for a lifetime, and so it will take a lifelong approach to prov...

Taking a lifelong approach also means focusing on intensive early intervention, particularly for peo...

Importantly, an NDIS will support choice for people with disability, their families and carers, and ...

An NDIS will ensure people are no longer “shut out” from opportunities and from independence by prov...

It will nurture and sustain the support of families, carers and friendship groups — the very communi...

And it will include a comprehensive information and referral service, to help people with a disabili...

A National Disability Insurance Scheme will give all Australians the peace of mind to know that if t...ted