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22/08/2024
17/08/2024
❌ "This Bill was developed without true co-design, bypassing the voices of those most impacted." The Face-to-Face with Senators: Every Australian Counts Legislation Update Forum made it clear: the lack of genuine consultation and co-design is unacceptable. Policies that affect people with disabilities must be shaped by those with lived experience. Don’t forget, the deadline for feedback is now 25th August.
16/08/2024
MEDIA STATEMENT: Rumours of back door deals to re-institutionalise people with disability, forcing individuals, parents and carers to give up their rights to choice and control over NDIS supports
FPDN joins calls from other advocates, including The National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls (The National Network), who have also expressed their deep concerns about the increasing institutionalisation of people with disability throughout the current NDIS reforms.
“First Nations people with disability, particularly our women sit at the intersection of multiple discriminatory policies, laws and agendas. We are bearing the brunt of a number of sweeping changes that are being implemented at odds with the government’s commitments under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. Enough is enough, we will not sit idly by while our communities have our rights violated”, says Woppaburra women and FPDN Head of Policy, Tahlia-Rose Vanissum.
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🚨 Content Warning 🚨 🍻 Pub Testing the NDIS Bill: Does the Government’s commitment to duty of care pass the test?
⚠️ Content Warning: ⚠️ This video discusses scenarios potentially leading to the preventable deaths of people with disabilities, including by su***de. Viewer discretion is advised. The Government is encouraged to respond meaningfully to our concerns.
This unscripted discussion addresses some of the things keeping disability advocates Uli Cartwright and Cat Walker up at night, and some of the concerns we covered in our submissions to the two Senate inquiries on the NDIS Bill which have not yet been addressed at the time of publication.
Forgive the lack of introduction... It had been a long day. We start from a discussion of the difficulty government officials seem to have understanding that debts against NDIS participants cannot exist unless somebody makes a judgement that they have misspent their funds.
Participants and their families will understand how subjective that is, but do the general public? Does the Government?
We hope NDIS Minister Bill Shorten is listening. We hope the wider community is, too.
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