NDIS bureaucracy delayed wheelchair for quadriplegic child for over a year, parent says
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Guardian staff reporter
2h ago· 6 min readenOpinion
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Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
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Summary
A parent shares a personal story about their quadriplegic son to illustrate the absurdity and wastefulness of the NDIS bureaucracy. The article criticizes the NDIS for spending over a year fighting the family's request for a basic wheelchair for their child, highlighting systemic inefficiencies and misplaced blame on disabled people for cost blowouts. The author argues that the real waste comes from administrative delays and red tape, not from the needs of participants.
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· 3 pulledThere, under an old blanket in the back corner of his wardrobe, I found a massive pile of clothes, clean and dirty mixed together, once-folded T-shirts intermingled with now-creased shirts.
What's frustrating about Labor's budget cuts is that they imply disabled people are to blame for cost blowouts
The NDIS spent a year fighting our request to give our quadriplegic kid a wheelchair. Talk about wasteful
What’s frustrating about Labor’s budget cuts is that they imply disabled people are to blame for cost blowouts
