South Australia’s Peter Malinauskas and Tasmania’s Jeremy Rockliff have helped broker a major deal on disability governance, helping push through reform legislation in the Senate.
Already a subscriber?Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has warned federal Labor that changes to NDIS funding must not leave the states paying too much to care for children with autism, in a retort signalling the newly signed peace deal with the Albanese government could be short-lived.
“We already provide significant additional support and we want to make sure the federal government continues to recognise that as we move forward with the future changes to the NDIS,” Ms Allan said. A spokeswoman for West Australian Premier Roger Cook said the deal was a positive step, “however significant work is still to be done, in partnership with the Commonwealth and the disability community, to improve the operation of the NDIS”.As a result of the deal with premiers, Mr Shorten will be able to pass a bill bedding down some initial recommendations of the government’s NDIS review, such as stopping automatic top-ups of plans by scheme participants who run out of funding for care.
“The scheme is supported by just about all political parties and most politicians, because we all live in the real world and we know people who are on the scheme and we know families for whom it’s changing their lives,” Mr Shorten said.
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