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A glimmer of hope at last? : Comments

By John Foster, published 15/3/2011

Some 800,000 unpaid primary caregivers hope they might be better off under the proposed disability insurance scheme.

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The greens should trim their cloth now as the rains have returned and other sectors which have missed out need a bigger paint brush and some canvas. Bobs neglected his bush garden which is overgrown and needs pruning.
Posted by Dallas, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 10:50:08 AM
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Spot on, John! Our failure to provide caring facilities for our most dependent citizens must rank as our number one social injustice. That there can be parent carers in their seventies, eighties and nineties is our collective shame. And that these parents can go to their graves without seeing the person whom they have devoted their lives to settled in supported accommodation is unthinkable in a wealthy country like ours. John Howard used to say "The families are the best providers". What he meant was that the ongoing care of the person with disability would cost far more than the family could generate in taxation. Therefore, careers and lifestyles are sacrificed to the god of economic rationalism and families with a disabled member are left to cope alone. Now a whole generation of people with disability has grown up without accommodation services. What happens to these most vulnerable people when their parents die? Let us hope that we live long enough to see the implementation of the NDIS.
Posted by estelles, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 12:00:39 PM
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