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Australia politics live: NDIS reforms to pass parliament today after 63 amendments get Coalition on side

Bill passed Senate on Wednesday evening and is due back in lower house today. Follow today’s news liveFollow our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Up to them to explain’: Queensland lags on thriving kids Jenny McAllister, the NDIS minister is on ABC AM and says – like Butler – that...

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by Krishani Dhanji
Australia politics live: NDIS reforms to pass parliament today after 63 amendments get Coalition on side

Bill passed Senate on Wednesday evening and is due back in lower house today. Follow today’s news live

‘Up to them to explain’: Queensland lags on thriving kids

Jenny McAllister, the NDIS minister is on ABC AM and says – like Butler – that no one will “fall between two stools” due to the NDIS reforms.

Disability supports have always been a shared responsibility by the states and territories and the Commonwealth. Disability ministers are clear about their desire to co-govern the scheme and to co-govern disability supports. That has always been true for disability, for disability policy and program, continues to be the case, and we work with the states and territories to make sure that we have got a strong disability ecosystem that can support all people with disability across the community.

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This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Krishani Dhanji.

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