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What will a National Disability Insurance Scheme do for primary carers? : Comments

By Jean Tops, published 10/3/2011

More than 2.6 million of us collectively save over $42 billion annually via the free service provided by involuntary carers of people with a disability.

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If we're talking about dollars here, have you any idea of what its costing the Australian Taxpayer to financially support disability bludgers who display no disability doing backyard cash jobs welding, scaffolding, driving trucks and making illegal additions/repairs to houses?
Posted by Wakatak, Thursday, 10 March 2011 6:08:55 AM
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Yes Wakatak we are talking dollars here. But apart from that your comment has nothing to do with the subject under discussion: the article is about help for carers of the severely disabled, not about abuse of Disability Allowances. Sorry you missed the point totally (or didn't understand it). If you have problem with the abuse of the welfare system, report it to Centrelink rather than whinging.

Like many, Wakatak has absolutely no comprehension of what carers give up, do and endure. And the sad thing not so much that they don't care, it's that they feel hostility because of fear they are being 'got at'.
Posted by LRAM, Thursday, 10 March 2011 7:36:11 AM
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Posted by Wakatak, Thursday, 10 March 2011 8:38:48 AM
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A National Disability Insurance Scheme will provide basic services. It will allow a newly diagnosed child the receipt of essential therapies and early intervention. It will allow struggling families an amount of respite. It will provide physically disabled people a daily shower. It will allow ageing parents the peace of mind of seeing their family member settled before they die. But it will do more. It will grant every Australian the right to feel secure in the knowledge that should the unthinkable happen to them or theirs, supports are in place to assist. It will mean that the oft-quoted belief in the land of the fair go is no longer a delusion. It will mean we can all hold our heads higher because we have made a more just and humane society. It will mean that collectively we have taken responsibility for ALL our citizens and not just cost shifted to certain families. Finally, our country is mature enough for an NDIS.
Posted by estelles, Thursday, 10 March 2011 8:42:04 AM
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So many so called "caring" people have a strange disability. It is a form of blindness that makes them see only bags of money, for their pet hobby horse, every time they look at government.

I for one am getting sick of having to fund every bleeding heart dream on earth.

I did not find it too difficult to care for my aging mother, up until she could no longer stand, a couple of weeks before her 99 birthday. As one would expect, she did not require care for long after then.

I can not see why some people believe caring for their family is a duty of government.
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 10 March 2011 9:04:25 AM
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Wakatak, thank you for your contribution. It is really important that people who have no experience of disability are able to ask these questions.
Firstly, the National Disability Insurance Scheme is not about income support. It would have no impact on the payments made by Centrelink. In very simple terms, we are talking about providing a child with a wheelchair. If you are ill, or need medical assistance, Medicare provides for you to see a doctor, or be admitted to a hospital should you need it. If you were injured in a car accident, or at work, youwould be provided with a wheelchair if you needed it. However a child born with a disability will be placed on a waiting list for a partially funded chair. They need to be at school, learning the same things as everybody else, and not sitting at home waiting for a chair.

Secondly, if you know people who are defrauding the state through Centrelink, you should report them. Nobody disputes this. It is offensive to people with disabilities that this occurs.

However the one or two individuals defrauding are supported in this by those who know about it and allow it to happen. The hundreds of thousands who are legitimately receiving the payment are not dishonest as a result. The two groups are unrelated.
Posted by NaomiMelb, Thursday, 10 March 2011 10:15:14 AM
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