Backlash over Shortenâs âOompa-Loompaâ rant Bill Shorten has copped backlash for âdisappointingâ remarks where he labelled NDIS workers as âOompa-Loompasâ and âchimpanzees typingâ.
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Subscriber only Bill Shorten has copped backlash for disappointing remarks where he labelled National Disability Insurance Agency workers as Oompa-Loompas and chimpanzees typing . The Labor frontbencher made the comparison to the little orange workers from Willy Wonka s Chocolate Factory at a community forum in Geelong on Wednesday, where he claimed nuts red tape was preventing people with a disability from accessing services. This is bureaucracy gone crazy. If you want to vary an item by a couple of hundred dollars, you ve got a whole process, he said.
Backlash over Shortenâs âOompa-Loompaâ rant Bill Shorten has copped backlash for âdisappointingâ remarks where he labelled NDIS workers as âOompa-Loompasâ and âchimpanzees typingâ.
Politics by Finn McHugh
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Subscriber only Bill Shorten has copped backlash for disappointing remarks where he labelled National Disability Insurance Agency workers as Oompa-Loompas and chimpanzees typing . The Labor frontbencher made the comparison to the little orange workers from Willy Wonka s Chocolate Factory at a community forum in Geelong on Wednesday, where he claimed nuts red tape was preventing people with a disability from accessing services. This is bureaucracy gone crazy. If you want to vary an item by a couple of hundred dollars, you ve got a whole process, he said.
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Anger is an emotion we’re rarely told to express. Passionate women and people of colour are often framed as outspoken, enraged, shrill or resentful. Their fights are discredited the second they raise their voice.
But regardless of how it’s framed, anger gets results. When directed in the right way, rage can inspire change. It pulls people out of their homes, it causes them to rally outside Parliament, call out bullshit and fight for what they believe in.
This week
Crikey spoke with Samantha Connor, the president of People with Disabilities Australia, about what’s got her riled up this week and when anger has worked in her favour.
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The disability sector is demanding answers from the Federal Government over the independence of a report used to justify controversial reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Documents released to Labor appear to show the 2019 NDIS review was amended by public servants to include a section advocating for the rollout of permanent independent assessments - which disability advocates are opposed to.
Guest: Samantha Connor, President, People with Disability Australia
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Statement from a spokesperson for Minister Linda Reynolds:
The 2019 Review of the NDIS Act (the Tune Review) was conducted independently by David Tune AO PSM and the Australian Government respected his independence at all stages.
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Secret documents have cast doubt on the independence of a wide-ranging review into the National Disability Insurance Scheme that recommended the most radical overhaul of the $25 billion program since it was established.
Emails and draft copies of the 2019 report, written by former senior public servant David Tune, show National Disability Insurance Agency officials inserted an entire chapter into the review of the scheme’s legislation, and made substantial changes to almost every part of the document.
The disability sector is opposed to the NDIS using independent assessments.
The review was used by the Morrison government to introduce independent assessments for NDIS participants, where health professionals employed by one of eight providers paid by the government will review users’ eligibility for the scheme. Disability advocates have labelled the measure a cost-cutting measure to reduce the number of people in the program.