Living The Dream with the National Disability Insurance Scheme

In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) chats with Vanamali Hermans (@VChristabel) about the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Whilst billed as ‘the most significant economic and social reform since the introduction of Medicare in the 1970s’ Vanamali shows how the NDIS often means the reduction in services for those with disabilities and bureaucratic hellishness. We discuss why this is so, the compounding issue of inequality in regional health delivery and the struggles and strategies both developing and possible. This is the first of possibly a few episodes on the NDIS.

Due to incurable idiocy Dave’s levels are still too low. (Sorry)

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Articles mentioned incomed:

Vanamali Hermans

• Behind Closed Doors
• Our Healthcare System is Failing Us
• Market-Models Like the NDIS Are Failing People With Disabilities

Tim Lyons:

• Organising Ourselves: rebuilding Australian unions

Precarias a la Deriva

• A Very Careful Strike - Four hypotheses.