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24/06/2025

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05/04/2024

🚨 BREAKING: Crucial Update on NDIS Legislation 🚨

Today's webinar has revealed a concerning detail about Minister Bill Shorten’s proposed NDIS legislation. The needs assessment, a critical component of the legislation, will not be subject to review, mirroring the LNP’s Independent Assessments plan. This ‘Getting the NDIS Back on Track’ bill could potentially grant the NDIA an unprecedented level of control by shifting significant power to easily amendable Rules. It’s concerting that individual goals and aspirations will no longer influence funding decisions. Instead, these decisions will be based solely on the needs assessment, leading to a funding model based on the type of disability a participant has rather than individual needs.

The proposed legislation introduces budget allocations based on non-existent tools and allied health professionals. It also increases the power to exclude individuals from the NDIS Despite assurances of co-design, the legislation was drafted in secrecy, devoid of community input. It’s evident that this legislation, which appears to prioritize cost-cutting over improving the NDIS, could be detrimental. If enacted, it could result in inadequate support and potentially even lead to fatalities without any form of recourse.

We call for transparency and collaboration, not decisions made behind closed doors. This legislation, which threatens lives and undermines the core mission of the NDIS, must be scrutinized.

19/03/2024

NDIA confirms 2,500 participants have ‘interacted with the justice system’

The National Disability Insurance Agency has revealed the number of people on the scheme who have “interacted with the justice system” is sitting at about 2500, as Labor considers changing protocols to ensure those with serious criminal histories don’t self-manage their plans.
In light of revelations convicted ra**st and NDIS participant Thomas Hofer had used his taxpayer-funded NDIS plan to seek out “fit” female support workers between the age of 18 and 35, the agency was fronted with questions in senate estimates over how many participants had convictions.
While officials were able to confirm just 2500 of the scheme’s almost 600,000 participants had interacted with the justice system, they were unable to say how many had been charged with violent sexual crimes as Mr Hofer had.
“We don’t have data sharing agreements that gives that level of detail,” NDIA deputy chief executive officer Scott McNaughton said.
“We rely very heavily on getting that information from the state and territory justice systems. We don’t automatically get that data … it’s manual.”
Opposition Assistant NDIS spokeswoman Hollie Hughes said it seemed as though there was no appropriate “risk assessment” to ensure participants didn’t pose a threat to support workers.

Mr McNaughton said the NDIS Act assumed a person with disability had “choice and control” over their lives.
But he revealed that work was under way to improve this data exchange as the agency also investigated the feasibility of blocking anyone with a violence criminal history from self-managing a plan.
Instead, NDIS participants with such convictions would be forced to accept plans that were managed directly by the agency, which would connect them with support workers and services.
The Coalition has ramped up its attack on Labor in recent days over how many people with criminal histories were accessing the taxpayer-funded scheme, demanding transparency over whether Mr Hofer was the only participant that the government knew of that had “exploited” the NDIS to perpetrate predatory behaviour.
Following the NDIA’s confirmation of how many participants had criminal convictions, opposition NDIS spokesman Michael Sukkar said it was essential the agency came clean on how many of those individuals were managing their own plans.
“Urgent review is needed to disclose how many individuals with serious criminal convictions are receiving NDIS funding, and how many of those are on self-managed plans,” he said.
“This is vitally important to not only protect the safety of carers and providers, but to also preserve the integrity of the scheme.”
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