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The Senate Committee, chaired and report authored by Labor recommend passing the Bill. LNP are yet to decide.
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The Senate Committee, chaired and report authored by Labor recommend passing the Bill. LNP are yet to decide.

Many have been calling LNP Senators and Angus Taylor today and are being told they are yet to decide.

Action could be a wave of emails over the weekend and phone calls Monday. Greens Senator Jordon Steele John said at the DSC Conference today, that politicians react when they are pestered ! So let’s give it one more go.

This will be the Monday walk of shame for Labor.

u/Withtheparticipant — 6 days ago
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An excellent article on the Bill

Now the final submissions to the Inquiry are closed the next best thing is email/call to all Senators especially LNP. The government needs the opposition to pass the Bill.

From the first page:
“The “Bill” (The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations)) he introduced to accomplish this is a monster – in every sense of the word. With 101 amendments to the NDIS Act itself and multiple more to ancillary legislation, it is slated to be the most consequential change to the way Australia deals with its disabled citizens since the NDIS was introduced.
The NDIS was originally intended to give disabled people individual choice to tailor their supports to their particular needs, moving away from the old system of block funding towards something that (as the name suggested) would be an insurance scheme, helping them reduce worse outcomes from uncatered-for disabilities down the track. This reverses much of this progress, as the government’s own statement of compatibility with human rights notes:
 
“Some elements of the changes, such as those measures which limit access to the Scheme or reduce the volume or quantity of supports, may appear on their face to be retrogressive.”
 
When even the government holds this view (although stating that the need for cost cutting justifies the changes) and where its own Reform Advisory Committee was more scathing, it is not hard to see why disabled people are even less generous in their assessment. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference have noted with alarm both the lack of consultation with disabled people (two weeks to provide submissions, since grudgingly extended) and the effects of the automated decision-making provisions (discussed below).”

https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/the-ndis-was-built-on-choice-now-its-built-on-cost

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u/Withtheparticipant — 1 month ago
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Just two lines

Thank you to Jo on LinkedIn for this.

TWO LINES CAN SLOW THE NDIS BILL -
Don't worry about a weighty dissertation on the Bill, we know how diabolical and how unAustralian this draconian document is!!!

The Senate Committee counts volume, not length.
Every email adds pressure.
Example:
“Please do not pass the NDIS Amendment Bill in its current form. It removes rights, reduces choice and control, and will harm people with disability in my community.”

Impact: Extremely high
Effort: 2–3 minutes
Deadline: 29 May
📧 community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au
📧 NDISConsultations@dss.gov.au - PS If this address bounces back, it is because of an aggressive spam filter at DSS. Hmm, wonder if that is accidental or deliberate right now? Community Affairs is the addy that hits the sweet spot anyway.

SILENCE BECOMES POLICY. SPEAK NOW.

u/Withtheparticipant — 3 months ago
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Senate Inquiry on the NDIS Bill link and link to government consultation timeframe this inquiry disregards.

Anyone can send a submission. It doesn’t have to be long or detailed. Just your concerns at the cuts. They have only given 2 weeks - an extraordinarily restrictive time for disabled people.

The governments own Best Practice Consultation policy recommends 30 to 60 days for community consultation and submissions. We have been given two weeks to comment on the new legislation. If you are able email: community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au Complain about the inappropriate two week consultation period and request 60 days.

https://oia.pmc.gov.au/resources/guidance-oia-procedures/best-practice-consultation

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary\_Business/Committees/Senate/Community\_Affairs/NDISFutureGenBill

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u/Withtheparticipant — 3 months ago
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Sorry to be late posting but fraud messaging has been spruiked by government in order to drive cuts (they did this with Redbridge before the 2024 amendment). Albo has 11 Media advisors do no surprise that Fraud has been the splash to drive these savage cuts.

It’s no surprise that people have been duped into thinking NDIS should be scrapped.
if fraud is the reasoning we might as well scrap Medicare, Child Care, Defence, Education, Veterans Affairs, Aged Care etc etc.

u/Withtheparticipant — 4 months ago
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Today is one of THE most important actions you can take.

Albo, Butler and Chalmers want to believe this is all just anxiety from online people that won't translate to a real movement. Today, we prove them wrong.

YES we know how hard it is to pick up the phone. We know how hard it is to leave our house. They're counting on this. And we're going to show them that when our ability to leave our houses, choose who touches our bodies and comes into our homes and our lives and quality of life are on the line - we'll do basically anything.

So, today is the day. If you've been watching along, please jump in on today's action. Call your local MP. If you're extra enthusiastic, call Minister Mark Butler, Minister McAllister and Shadow Minister for NDIS Melissa McIntosh. Ask them all for a meeting.

You can also just rock up with your buddies and ask for a meeting then and there.

Let's show them we are just getting started and this won't go away.

12 days of action are here: https://www.dpacaustralia.net/get-involved Join our mailing list while you're at it!

#KeepThePromise #ProtectOurNDIS

u/Withtheparticipant — 4 months ago