The 'desperate situations' of First Nations people with disability living in remote communities have been laid bare at the disability royal commission.
A mother resorted to rummaging through a rubbish tip to find spare parts for her daughter's wheelchair, the disability royal commission was told this week.
Some 66,000 First Nations people live with severe disability, but only about half are NDIS participants Approximately 66,000 First Nations people live with severe disability. About 38,500 are NDIS participants and 10 per cent of those live in remote and very remote communities. One of the themes that emerged was the difficulty of being a wheelchair user or needing a mobility device in a remote community.
Her mother, Topsy, said there was always "trouble" with her daughter's wheelchair and once when it broke down, she drove around the community looking for a discarded wheelchair to use for parts."I went out to the tip... and we got that wheelchair down off the pile of rubbish," Topsy said.
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