Senators will today begin presiding over three days of hearings into legislation paving the way for the Albanese government to make the biggest ever cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
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This bill proposes repealing that note and changing “arises” to “arises directly” in the subsection above it.
It’s a small change, but something experts say will give the agency licence to ignore a precedent set in the federal court earlier this year.
The court ruled that even though Lee Eastham was only accepted onto the NDIS due to his hearing and vision impairments, the added impact of his other disabilities and the lack of buses in the regional area where he lived meant he should still be funded for a mobility scooter.
