The NDIS: The Mark of Pre-War or Post-War Public Policy Making?
Abstract
Disability advocates, politicians and the media almost universally heralded the National Disability Insurance Scheme as an historic reform. But is it? For all the money outlaid, people with disabilities will be left with a care system facing many of the same problems as the ones it replaced, as well as many of the same NGO service providers. Has anything really been gained?References
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