The Hon Bill Shorten, Minister for NDIS
I love the NDIS. For me, it's not just a sticker. For me, it's a way of thinking. In the last ten years the NDIS has come a fair way. It is literally changing lives. If we look after the participants, then everything else sort of looks after itself. I love the fire. I love the passion.
Audience Question
Fellow cage rattler/kicker here, but what we need to talk about is how community organisations who can do this connecting, How we survive until these changes happen will it be likely that self-managing may not be an option and we will have to start the whole process over again? NDIS is something that scares me. It says 'control and choice'. But as an advocate, I think that my clients have lost control and they've lost choice.
The Hon Bill Shorten, Minister for NDIS
None of this is going to happen overnight. The truth is that it's a great scheme. The truth is it can be even better. I hope you've picked up a little bit of a sense of where we're coming from. You know, the truth is that we've still got to have self-managed plans. The truth is that there will still be psychosocial disorders in the scheme. The truth is that we will have merit-based review. The truth is also that we need to get some of the excess costs, bloating the scheme into a more manageable growth trajectory. Thank you very much.
We'll do this together. That's the truth.