The Australian Greens see the appointment of a new Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme as a missed opportunity to implement a recommendation of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Disabled People. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Jordon Steele-John, Australian Greens spokesperson for Disability Rights and Services:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “From the cost of housing to groceries to healthcare – disabled people, our families, and support workers are being pushed to the brink right now. We need cross-government action to urgently improve the lives of disabled people across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “One way to achieve this urgent action would have been to implement a recommendation of the Disability Royal Commission to appoint a Minister for Disability Inclusion, not just a Minister for the NDIS. It\u2019s disappointing that the government has failed to implement yet another recommendation of the Disability Royal Commission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “A Minister for Disability Inclusion would be responsible for improving the lives of all disabled Australians – not just those who are eligible for the NDIS. A Minister for Disability Inclusion would enable us to have the cross-government action we need to improve the lives of disabled people across all areas of life – like education, healthcare, public transport – just to name a few. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Ideally, Australia would have a Minister with lived experience of disability. I hope that the new Minister will publicly commit to undertaking training, including disability awareness training. The Australian Greens see the appointment of a new Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme as a missed opportunity to implement a recommendation of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Disabled People. Senator Jordon Steele-John, Australian Greens spokesperson for Disability Rights and Services:\u00a0 “From the cost of housing to groceries … Continue reading “Greens Respond to Announced of New NDIS Minister”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30925,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30924\/revisions\/30925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“The Australian Greens recently announced our disability leadership plan<\/u><\/a>. This plan would get more disabled people into our Federal Parliament – this includes the establishment of a $5m Election Access Fund to support disabled people to inclusively contest Federal Elections. It\u2019s only through these proactive measures that we will one day get a Minister for Disability with lived experience as a disabled person.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"