Introduction: Developing the National Disability Insurance Scheme

The Australian Government is in the process of developing a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for Australia. The NDIS will help to cover the costs of support for people with significant and permanent disabilities. The NDIS commenced in mid 2013 in a limited number of launch sites in order...

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Hauptverfasser:	N. Biddle, F. Al-Yaman, M. Gourley, M. Gray, J. R. Bray, B. Brady, L. A. Pham, E. Williams, M. Montaigne
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anthropology Applied sciences Behavioral sciences Business Business economics Business operations Commerce Commercial production Communities Disabilities Disability insurance Economic disciplines Economics Ethnic groups Ethnology Finance Financial economics Financial transactions Funding Health sciences Human populations Human societies Indigenous peoples Indigenous populations Insurance Laboratory techniques Medical conditions Nondestructive testing Payments Population estimates Population studies Productivity Social groups Social sciences Sociology Workers insurance
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Zusammenfassung:	The Australian Government is in the process of developing a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for Australia. The NDIS will help to cover the costs of support for people with significant and permanent disabilities. The NDIS commenced in mid 2013 in a limited number of launch sites in order to test the operation of the scheme and to allow for its design to be informed by feedback from people with a disability, their families and carers, service providers and community organisations.¹ As this monograph was written before the initial launch of NDIS, it contains no discussion of the launch sites