Senator Hollie Hughes is one of the scheme’s biggest defenders – her son has used it to access support for autism for almost eight years. But she says Bill Shorten needs to come clean about his plans to rein in growth.
There is no way that all young children on the National Disability Insurance Scheme have a permanent and lifelong disability, the Coalition’s new assistant NDIS spokesperson says.
“The one thing that will absolutely hone every part of my focus is maintaining the scheme’s sustainability, because for participants and their families who have permanent and lifelong disabilities, we need this scheme to be sustainable. We need to know, as parents, that our children will be supported when we can no longer do it.
“Instead of being open and honest with participants and their families, they’re refusing to provide documents, but they’re baking $69 billion worth of savings into the budget,” Hughes said.“It’s a demand-driven scheme. So that either means cutting the participants or cutting the size of the plans. But Shorten won’t be honest with the Australian people and tell us how he’s going to achieve any of this.
“Because of the inability of parents to access any form of support or therapy via the state government, people are being pushed towards the NDIS. There needs to be a fundamental shift.” “I think there’s a lack of understanding of what is an appropriately funded support. You might need supports to go to the movies, but the NDIS doesn’t buy the movie tickets,” she said.
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