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The People's Question
In February, Crikey.com.au and OurSay gave you the opportunity to get your question asked in House of Representatives through a secret MP.
Crikey.com.au featured a new reader's question each week, and looked at where/how and why of the issue.
After voting closed, it was revealed the secret MP was Adam Bandt, the member for Melbourne. He plans to take the top question on the OurSay site (which is about end-of-life decision-making) into parliament house on Wednesday the 14th of March. Stay tuned to our website, Facebook page and Twitter for updates.
The Question
to the Treasurer ... Australia ranks 27th of 27 OECD country for poverty of people with a disability. Australia ranks a clear last. Does Australia's economic stability and prosperity depend on the poverty of its citizens with a disability? If not, what will you do about the poverty of Australians with a disability?
Is the State of NSW now a Commie State? Or what do YOU call it when one govt dept takes a job off a family caring for a child with Cerebral Palsy, a small mum and dad business, and gives it to another govt dept, in retribution for the family begging for transport for their child to school, to hospital and other appointments?
The NDIS was looking like it had bipartisan support, now Tony Abbott is backing away from the most vulnerable people in Australian society when the going gets tough (but not even really that tough!)
When will people realise that introducing decent disability services would enrich the nation as a whole, not impoverish it? Abbott's hedging on when the NDIS will be introduced completely ignores the fact that many people with disabilities and carers are out of the workforce because of poor services, not because of disability per se. We would be paying tax if we could just get to work!
They are a another group that dose work in low pay jobs in this county. Because services need to improve for them so they find butter jobs which pay more money and have higher Standard of live.
Thank you for posing this question. Negotiating a role that is flexible and can accommodate a person with a disability or the requirements of a worker caring for someone with a disability presents a number difficulties and limits opportunities. The link between disability and poverty is manifest, and yet changes to labour policies, training and job placement would reap rewards. Unfortunately little strategic policy thought has been given to long-term career paths for people with disabilities, carers and those working in the disability sector. I hope this question is asked and answered and that parties of all persuasions priorities major reform in this area.
The issue of poverty extends to the entire family as carer parents are forced to stop full time work to support their child/adult. The NDIS will pay for itself 4 time over Mr Abbott as more support people are employed and parents return to the workforce. All paying taxes. The benefits of this will raise the bar for us as a society and improve the well being and health of people with disabilities and their families. Aging parents may even have a life before they die