With Debbie Chilton

Author and Poet

Monday, February 6, 2012

My Thoughts On NDIS


NDIS
Bring all Australians
Together as one
For everyone counts
Everyone deserves equality

NDIS says I count
Count me in
When making polices
Listen to my voice

NDIS says count me in
For a fairer system for
People with disabilities
Regardless of postal address

The Productivity Commission
Said YES to NDIS
Yes to a single unified
Funding system for PWD’s

COAG said YES to NDIS
Agreeing in principle
The concept of NDIS
Is good for ALL AUSTRLIANS
  
The Coalition said Yes
To NDIS in principle
Yes to all Australians count
So let’s make NDIS work

In October everyone cheered
Everyone agreed we should
Work to together so
Every Australian Counts

Now yes to NDIS but not now
Yes to NDIS in 2014 said Labor
Yes to its introduction, but
Mr Abbott says WAIT!

Now it’s WAIT to NDIS
Now they say wait
After the next election
Labor too said, WAIT

YES NDIS is a policies issues
Yes we agree in principal
To a fairer Disability System
It’s an election issue

You see NDIS is just that
A campaign by PWD’s
For a fair go and we want
To know who is Fair dinkum 

NDIS is not a policy
It has no working draft
No committed funds
And no agreed time table

It has no committed long term
Funding system –
No one has said where the
Money will come from

Some want it to work
Like Medicare
meaning another Tax Levi
who would vote for that

we’re ready for NDIS
ready to test if it works
ready to write a users guide
without agreed guidelines

don’t you see NDIS
is a campaign giving us a voice
it’s no more than an idealistic
way to fund a disabilities sector

Go away until you have
A piece of legislation and
Committed funds  
Then I’ll help you write a pilot

Then and only then! 

Debbie Chilton (c) Copyright 2012

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