Many families in Australia need our government to support the NDIS

Opinion by Jonathon Hunyor, PIAC CEO

The National Disability Insurance Scheme was set up to give independence and improved quality of life to people with disability.

It has been said that it “exists to help Australians with disability live ordinary – and extraordinary – lives”. But it has become a political football in a game that tells us a lot about what we value and what kind of society we want to live in.

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