Peter Boyle spoke to Graham Matthews, the Socialist Alliance spokesperson on disability rights, about the proposed cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme in the upcoming budget.
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Graham Matthews joins the Green Left Show to discuss Labor’s planned cuts to the NDIS.
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The National Disability Insurance Scheme was built by decades of activist struggle. It will not be dismantled without a fight, argues Gabrielle McCutcheon.
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The Anthony Albanese government’s decision to savage the National Disability Insurance Scheme ranks high in the scale of betrayals by neoliberal Labor governments, argues Graham Matthews.
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Few things impact the human experience more than living with a disability. The creation of the NDIS was a welcome relief, argues Suzanne James, but now its architects are planning to hand “choice and control” to an algorithm without human oversight and no right of appeal.
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New data shows a 63% surge in preventable deaths of homeless people because of critical shortages in housing and support services. Suzanne James reports.
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Suzanne James speaks to WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John about changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme which passed in August.
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Bill Shorten, the outgoing National Disability Insurance Scheme minister, should have addressed the disabled community’s concerns about a debt collection function buried in his new law. Suzanne James reports.
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Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen are joined by Nova Sobieralski to discuss Labor's attacks on the CFMEU and the NDIS amendment bill, and talk to socialist council candidate Rachel Evans.
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WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John has slammed Labor’s failure to act on the disability royal commission’s key recommendations, saying the party has failed the disability community. Suzanne James reports.
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Suzanne James talks to WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John about the Albanese government’s betrayal of the disability community by ignoring the bulk of the royal commission’s recommendations while defunding the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
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A new draft list of NDIS “supports” shows why a list is the wrong tool. Many of the supports on the exclusion list are better value for money than items that have been included, argues Nova Sobieralski.