Children in Victoria with severe and complex disabilities and who have been given up by their families to state care were meant to have been the big beneficiaries
The Victorian and NSW governments have accused the Commonwealth of holding back $1.7 billion in extra funds for the National Disability Insurance Scheme to prop up its promised budget surplus.
In Jume 2019 Premier Daniel Andrews and Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced they had finally settled a long-running dispute over funding for the NDIS. Mr Donnellan says he and his officials tried to finalise the deal at meetings of the intergovernmental Disability Reform Council in October 2019 and again two months later but were met with silence by the Commonwealth.
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