NDIS Minister Linda Reynolds must stop all compulsory independent assessments for people who participate in the NDIS and rollback vicious cuts to the scheme.

Minister Reynolds has announced a delay in the so-called “independent” assessments, but it does not go far enough.

The assessments plan is an anti-disability monster and as the new Liberal gatekeeper of the NDIS she needs to put a stake in its heart – not just delay it.

The Morrison Government is going to great lengths to hide from the Australian public its real NDIS agenda, which is to slash funding, increasingly privatise it and stop people accessing the scheme.

This week we have already seen a secret plan to slash services to people with a disability. The new Sustainability Action Taskforce– which is the Government’s latest a razor gang –  told all front-line NDIS staff to “slow” access and funding of the NDIS. 

For eight years we have watched Liberal Governments fumble the NDIS ball. It’s time to stop the cuts and show their commitment to people living with a disability.

The NDIS is a right, it is not a ration. Just like Medicare or Superannuation, it is a universal scheme all Australians can access, if and when they need it. 

It’s clear the only reason Minster Reynolds and her backroom cronies are making cuts is because they see the NDIS as a way to save a buck.

Their own staff are leaking their plans to stop the carnage. In the past month we have revealed and seen:

•    Leaked legislation revealing plans to exclude certain disability groups from the NDIS;
•    A fake independent report which the Government ghost wrote; and
•    Evidence the architects of the Robodebt scam are in charge of the overhaul the NDIS.

We will not stop until people living with a disability are given choice and control of their own lives with the system Labor created to properly support them.

Hand Off Our NDIS.

THURSDAY, 15 APRIL 2021

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