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This article was found in the Brisbane Times
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Tony Moore
Queenslanders want to know when NDIS will begin
The 97,000 Queenslanders living with a disability still have no idea where – or when – an “early launch” of the National Disability Insurance Scheme will begin in Queensland.
Around $2 million was set aside in Tuesday’s Queensland Budget for an “early launch” for Australia’s NDIS, yet no-one will say when or where the “early launch” will start.Queensland has decided to hold an “early launch” for the scheme – which begins from July 2016 – because there has been no NDIS trial in Queensland.
All other states have run NDIS trial sites, set in train after former prime minister Julia Gillard came to Queensland in May 2013 to sign the agreement with former premier, Campbell Newman.Fairfax Media on Wednesday spoke to several small and large disability care providers in Queensland. None of the providers knew where the “early launch” would take place, or when it would begin.
“It is one of the most closely guarded secrets ever,” one provider said.
Another told of receiving a letter on Tuesday from a woman caring for four disabled children who was worried the NDIS will be too complex for her to join.
All providers spoken to agreed there was very little updated NDIS information and many clients were getting nervous. Read more….
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