Reining in the NDIS

Sweeping reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme will cut 160,000 participants from the scheme over the next four years and reduce funding for the average plan by A$5,000 in half that time.

Reforming the NDIS

The government wants to curb NDIS spending as the $50 billion a year programme continues to spiral out of control, so here’s how it might succeed.

A brighter NDIS

The NDIS was designed as a nation-building reform and to preserve that vision, it must evolve to improve outcomes and control ballooning costs.

Reforming the NDIS

The cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme has ballooned by almost 25% every year for the last five years as innumerable providers jump on the gravy train, but much needed reform shouldn’t deprive genuinely disabled people of the support they need.

Questioning the NDIS

The NDIS will only support around 400,000 people with disability, yet there are 3.96 million people with disability in Australia. Diana Palmer from IDEAS questions what will happen to those remaining – especially when they no longer have access to information about the services they need?

International Day of People with Disability

Today is International Day of People with Disability. Open Forum asked young writer Jamie-Lee Dwyer to comment on this year’s theme of ‘transformation towards a sustainable and resilient society for all’.