Opinion: Many children with disabilities today live lives transformed by the National Disability Insurance Scheme, but an intelligent structural debate needs to be had | ViscountBrooky
On assignment at the Australian Open, I tried to get my story out of the way so I could catch the match between Dylan Alcott and Sam Schroder that had been upgraded to centre court on Rod Laver Arena.
This was the match they had stopped the 6pm news for. Alcott gave a speech for the ages. Even though he had lost, he had won. “Thanks for backing someone who’s disabled to be the front of your brand,” he told officials. He urged everyone to take note of all those in wheelchairs who were watching near me on the stadium concourse. “People like me … we are integrated and involved in our society.”
A few days after the Open, my young cousin Jamie celebrated his fourth birthday with a green ice cream cake and a purple wading pool. He ate his ice cream himself and sat up by the edge of the pool splashing about. It’s hard to look at such joyous family photos and admit that the NDIS funding is spiralling out of control.projects that the scheme will have 670,400 participants by July 2025 and 859,300 by July 2030. Total costs will be $29.2 billion in 2021-22, growing to $59.3 billion in 2029-30. In three years we will spend more on the NDIS than on Medicare.Almost every forecast has been wrong: new entrants flood in, the many who receive early intervention support don’t leave.