Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

What I can inform the Senate is that, since becoming the minister, I have greatly enjoyed and welcomed my opportunities to meet with disabled people and understand their perspectives and worldviews. For me, that has meant trying to engage with the most diverse representatives of that community possible. It's meant visiting facilities people attend to undertake activities. It's meant meeting with representative organisations. It's meant being invited into people's homes and sitting around the kitchen table and understanding their perspectives on disability.

This is an immense and rich community with a rich political tradition that has, in some ways, culminated in the campaign to establish the NDIS—but it is not confined to that by any means. It is my great hope that I will be able to work closely, respectfully and thoughtfully with that community during my term as minister. (Time expired)