Yes, we are excited and hopeful that the NDIS will bring what is promises - choice and control and respect for individuality. My country has finally come of age by taking responsibility for meeting the needs of its disabled population. What a milestone! Hope it gives you what you need, Peter, to carry on your good work.

Agree with most of this logical rational discourse! And if nothing else, simple economic grounds! 3 Hours a day measured against the 24/7 care provided in an INSTITUTION! Where you are free to follow the regimented rules, have visitors during visiting hours, eat at meal times.

And when the "CARE" is predicated on the profit model, wolf down pig slop (why does food for the disabled have to swim in liquid, more of which winds up decorating your shirt front than your intestines) in the few minutes allowed for meal times, in a dining room setting? Encouraged? For social inclusion purposes, regardless whether you're gregarious or not!

I believe the funding must be controlled by the disabled, not this or that service provider, seeking to maximise returns, via limited service delivery? The original intention of the legislation?

The trouble here is the two tiered delivery system and state able to foist their obligations or responsibilities on to the Fed and visa versa, ad nauseum!

And tells us there ought only be one healthcare provider, with one funding model! Direct funding ought to apply here and to all health care or public education with service providers forced to compete for customers! And the only way to guarantee best practise outcomes prevail!?

And again on sound economic grounds and saving limited taxpayer funds!

The other cost saving alternative is "voluntary" euthanasia?

Where there's a will there's always a relative, and caps that fit!?
Alan B.

We all have our problems.

The NDIS was thrust upon us by a desperate Labor government which knew it was on the way out. The desperate Labor government knew that it was unlikely that it would have to find the money for the prohibitively expensive scheme, and it would be left to the Coalition to sort out. Sure enough, along came the Abbott government and, as is so common with our duopoly, they lock-stepped with the deafeated, and worst government ever, and kept the unrealistic scheme. They could have dropped it without any shame at all, given the parlous economic state Labor left them in. But no, bigman, 'compassionate' Tony, tried to big note himself by carrying on with Labor's folly.

Australia cannot afford an indulgence like NDIS. The Canberra morons are spending $100,000,000 a day more than they are taking in!

What a disgusting bit of rubbish.

No thought at all for the thousands who are already struggling to pay the rent, or keep a car on the road, or even food on the table, who will have to pay for Peters grab bag of wants.

He wants control of his finances, paid for by people with stuff all finances to control.

He wants a specially modified car, paid for by those driving a 20 year old clunker.

He wanted a PhD he will never pay for, either in the money for the cost, or productivity to make the cost of value to the public who paid the bill.

This whole NDIS was yet another vote buying rip off by Labor, with no interest in how it would be paid for, or who & how many would suffer because of it.

Peter I suggest you keep quiet about this rip off, lest the public wake up & demand it be stopped.

Never ever: Where do you go to buy a PHD?

And if you are actually smart enough to get one? Why wouldn't the recipient, like Professor Stephen Hawkens, be able to command a six figure salary? And by implication, pay for the modified van, the braille machine he communicates with, from his salary entitlements, as well as pay tax on his taxable income?

On the other hand we see "for profit" child care paid for by the taxpayer! And the kids suffering neglect while the service provider pockets a massive payday.

And we give multi-millionaires tax breaks, negative gearing and entirely unearned capital gains, stripped from the budget bottom line!

While you and the rest of the "for profit sector", do the lunatic trot over the NDIS! And more than affordable if we just cancelled the aforementioned lurks and perks for das crooked capitalist cronies!

Pray tell, what's your "solution"? Something with the word "final" figuring prominently, perhaps? Jawohl mein Herr?
Alan B.