Tammy Tyrrell (Tasmania, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Senator McAllister. During the 2022 election campaign, the Labor Party went to great lengths to talk about how serious you are about NDIS co-design. You said that the difference between yourselves and the Liberal-National coalition was that you would only make changes to the NDIS in consultation and partnership with the disability community. I've since heard that the National Disability Insurance Agency only learnt about your Thriving Kids announcement through the media. The states tasked with actually implementing the announcement didn't know the details either. Nobody has seen any modelling on the impact of this. My question is: which of your so-called partners in the disability community actually knew the details before you announced your 'co-designed' $2 billion Thriving Kids announcement?