The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has long been the subject of debate and controversy. The current Labor government has been making moves to limit spending increases in the Scheme, and return it to what they say is its original purpose.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme has long been the subject of debate and controversy. The current Labor government has been making moves to limit spending increases in the Scheme, and return it to what they say is its original purpose. As part of that process, NDIS Minister Bill Shorten has introduced legislation into Parliament to specifically exclude some services from the scheme - including sexual support services.
These types of services are meant to have been available to NDIS participants ever since the Federal Court ruling.“It does not mean every person with a disability, their only access to sex is with a sex worker. And the sex workers we work with will actually say that. If I have a hundred clients coming through, you might have four that we will end up with some sort of report with the NDIS for sex work. And of those, all of those have been rejected in the last year that we've seen.
Mr Shorten wants the states and territories to handle what the NDIS cannot - or, in his view, should not.South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas confirmed after the December National Cabinet meeting that those discussions are well underway. Anita Brown-Major says the National Disability Insurance Agency is already resistant to what experts are saying people with disability need.
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