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How is the peak body for people with disabilities to be funded? : Comments
By Peter Gibilisco, published 10/2/2015According to the Coalition Australia is in such a bad economic position that we must question the affordability of just about everything and even reduce much needed Government services for Australia's most vulnerable citizens.
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There is very little in the way of practical advice or actual physical or financial support. No advice on what to do when you live in a small town that has no public transport but the mobility allowance has been rejected because the person has the " ability " to use public transport, yet doesn't have the ability to drive themselves, forcing carers to spend much of their time as taxi drivers.
No financial support to employers to take on a disabled person for the length of time required to train them into a specific profession. Even disability support at training institutes and higher education facilities is limited and generally provided by people with no training in that particular field of disability.
So if money can be diverted from these advisory and support agencies into practical help for the disabled then I have no complaints. I doubt that will happen, but the loss of some of these agencies is no great loss in my opinion.
As for the medical research fund, I am surprised people are being so short sighted about this. In the present there will be no benefits but long term the savings to government will be immense. Every new treatment and cure for chronic diseases will save billions in future costs, not to mention the income generated by patents on medications that will be in demand.
In addition, preventative health measures will hopefully be discovered, and these are the most cost efficient treatments of all.
The hysteria over the go co payment has been a total beat up. I'm an aged pensioner with grandchildren in my care, and if I don't find that cost exhibiting I don't see how anyone else can.