Tag: National Disability Insurance Scheme

Inquiry to probe NDIA’s ‘capability and culture’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A parliamentary inquiry will examine the capability and culture of the agency that oversees the $30 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme after a series of recent decisions that participants...

NDIS: A Copernican challenge for the actuarial model

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
The first article in the series ‘Defending the NDIS’, looked at the horrific complexity caused by the actuarial fiction of ‘primary disability’. The second article zeroed in on the...

NDIS algorithms and King Henry VIII powers

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
The political repudiation of the Commonwealth’s proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme by all States and Territories was far more than a routine stoush of the federation....

Putting the $4b ‘Assistive Tech’ market at risk

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
The recent report on Human Rights and Technology by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) made a landmark statement on technology as an enabling human right, and called for...

NDIS ‘robo-plans’ test algorithmic transparency

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s plan to determine the size of NDIS support packages for over 400,000 participants by fitting them into 400 ‘profiles’ will be a test of algorithmic transparency,...

‘Citizen-centric’ demolished by NDIS algorithms

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
After more than twenty years of ‘citizen centric’ strategies by governments around the world, this week saw the demolition in Australia of any pretence of citizen-centric, participant-centric, person-centric –...
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