An enlightening article. There are parallels between the exploding cost of the NDIS and the exploding cost of formal child care. In both cases government formal services cost massively more than that provided by the family or extended family. In the end all this waste ends causing a big increase in taxes.

Hasbeen, if you are a self managed NDIS client you can buy your needs
from anywhere. You can shop around companies on the list.but if you
are not self managed the services like cleaning etc will be appointed
by NDIS from a provider on the list.

It's a "Gillard Reform", so it's not going to be for mug punters. Same as her "reforms" of the mining tax, education funding, and population policy.

Labor will never be reelected, as long as they believe in St Julia.

No, it is not for the mug punter.
It is for the mother mostly and the father who have been carrying the
burden for sixty years and feel guilty of handing the burden to their
other sons and or daughters.
Have you not ever noticed the old lady with her 40 or 50 year old
son in tow taking him shopping in your local shopping centre ?

That is who it is for !
So before you snipe about it all think of that old lady.

“Ten years have now passed since the NDIS campaign was launched by the then Chair of Yooralla Disability Services in Victoria, Bruce Bonyhady. Despite Yooralla's reputation as one of the least innovative service providers in the disability field (running, to this day, sheltered workshops and day centres), Bonyhady and four colleagues from Price Waterhouse Coopers and the NSW Motor Accidents Authority, managed to devise a scheme that appealed to governments and oppositions, policy makers, the media, disability services and funded advocacy groups alike as an apparently innovative and visionary solution to the crisis in disability support.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the limited knowledge of disability by policy makers, politicians, and journalists, the scheme was widely seized upon as a 'solution'. Members of Parliament saw a hope that parents of sons and daughters with disabilities – the biggest source of angry correspondence that many MPs received from constituents – could be assuaged.”

Sure mate but this is what you wrote in 2015.

“Six years have now passed since the NDIS campaign was launched by the then Chair of Yooralla Disability Services, Bruce Bonyhady. Despite Yooralla’s reputation as one of the least innovative service providers in the disability field (running, to this day, sheltered workshops and day centres), Bonyhady and four colleagues from Price Waterhouse Coopers and the NSW Motor Accidents Authority, managed to devise a scheme that appealed to governments and oppositions, policy makers, the media and disability services, as an apparently innovative and visionary solution to the crisis in disability support.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the limited knowledge of disability by policy makers, politicians, and journalists, the scheme was seized upon as a ‘solution’. Members of Parliament saw a hope that parents of sons and daughters with disabilities – the biggest source of angry correspondence they received from constituents – could be assuaged.”

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=17868

Not a fan of virtual cut and paste efforts from anyone.

Thanks for the advice Bazz, but I don't have anything to do with the NDIS. I can still drive a vacuum cleaner & wash a few clothes & dishes.

What I can't do is walk 300 meters down & worse back up from starting the dam pump, & the Mazda shopping trolley has been complaining about too much rough track driving to do it & repair kangaroo damaged fences. Dragging a couple of wheely bins 150 Meters out to the gate is getting beyond me too.

It is also hard to get to the new shed 150M from the house to get a car. The old one was severely damaged by a tree in a gale, & it was no more expensive to build a new one in a safer place with easy cheap access to power, than repair it. I love it, & always wanted a shed like this, but in less than a year that 150 meters walk to it is getting harder to manage.

I have decided life is like a camel. He fills his hump to cross a desert, we retire with some assets, but if you live a long life many assets die. You have to replace the stove, washing machine, fridge etc as they die. Cars wear, & need expensive repairs or replacement, & on a property, maintaining or replacing pumps & fences gets expensive.

Worst of all, your ability to fix things diminish. For me today it is a question of will the knees or the lungs stop me before I get to the shed, or after. I bought a battery leaf blower, [it is lighter] to use to clean out the roof gutters, our only supply of drinking water. However getting onto the roof with it is also getting hard.

With a bit of thought & planning you can manage most things, but I keep thinking somewhere smaller, in the nice warm tropics would be nice. Fat chance, unless someone could tell me how to move a grand mother a thousand kilometers from the grand kids. Divorce, too messy.