scholarly journals Australia’s national disability insurance scheme: looking back to shape the future

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 1333-1350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kendrick ◽  
Margaret Ward ◽  
Lesley Chenoweth
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Piva ◽  
Margherita Latronico ◽  
Andrea Nero ◽  
Stefano Sartirana

IFLA Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Stirling ◽  
Gildas Illien ◽  
Pascal Sanz ◽  
Sophie Sepetjan
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2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Green ◽  
Jane Mears

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a major paradigm shift in funding and support for people with disability in Australia. It is a person centered model that has at its core a change in government funding away from service providers direct to individuals with disability. In principle it is heralded as a major step forward in disability rights. Nonetheless, the implementation poses threats as well as benefits. This paper outlines potential threats or risks from the perspective of not-for-profit organisations, workers in the sector and most importantly people with disability.  It draws on a range of recent reports on the sector, person centered models of funding and care, the NDIS and past experience. Its purpose is to forewarn the major issues so that implementers can be forearmed. 


2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavla Miller

AbstractIn a period of welfare state retrenchment, Australia's neo-liberal government is continuing to implement an expensive National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Australia is among the pioneers of welfare measures funded from general revenue. Until recently, however, attempts to establish national schemes of social insurance have failed. The paper reviews this history through the lenses of path dependence accounts. It then presents contrasting descriptions of the NDIS by its Chair, the politician who inspired him, and two feminist policy analysts from a carers’ organisation. Path dependence, these accounts illustrate, has been broken in some respects but consolidated in others. In particular, the dynamics of ‘managed’ capitalist markets, gendered notions of abstract individuals and organisations, and the related difficulties in accounting for unpaid labour are constraining the transformative potential of the NDIS.


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