Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

If I can just inform the House that there's a survey of disability and aged care that comes out, done by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It reports that 4.4 million Australians have a disability of some sort. As I've just explained to the House, those with permanent and significant disability are in the NDIS and the numbers I've just given, which are reported daily to ensure accountability.

In terms of numbers of people with a disability as a whole, it would require the states and territories knowing who every single Australian is who replied to that survey saying they have a disability. It would require those Australians to self-report in some way to the states and territories, and then for those states and territories to report them.

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