Arts said:

buffy said:

buffy said:

It would be my observation that the scheme was brought in and expected to be tweaked but we changed government and got a conservative version of tweaking.

I checked the timing. It passed through parliament in March 2013, but we change governments and various things got changed. “History section on Wikipedia”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Disability_Insurance_Scheme

We might have had nothing if it hadn’t gone through just before the election.

what we had before (where the states organised funding) was much simpler and easier to use for the disabled person and/or thier fund management team

I like the concept of a national scheme, just so it’s the same for everyone in the country. I don’t really see why the best of the state schemes couldn’t have been amalgamated. Of course…politics…