The 2012-13 budget delivered on 8th May gave the first details of the funding of the NDIS and the Federal government’s commitment to it. Certainly the NDIS, with its emphasis on client-controlled funding as well as increasing the level of funding is the most important new social program for decades – notwithstanding the funding going to mental health and other areas of need in the last decade. More→
The 2012–2013 Budget was delivered by the Treasurer Wayne Swan against the background of a government facing disastrous polls and where Labor had been devastated in two State elections in the previous year. It was also framed against a struggling world economy and a multi speed Australian economy with a booming mining sector and depressed and struggling manufacturing, retail and tourist sectors. Indeed but for the growth of jobs in the health, community and public sectors the level of unemployment would have been higher than the official 5.2 per cent. Unfortunately the unemployment figures do not include hidden unemployment which include the people who are in casual employment but cannot get full time work and those of the 800,000 Australians on Disability Pensions. The ABS statistics indicate that unemployment could really be twice the official figures. Offsetting this were the Treasurer’s comments that the Australian economy was still one of the strongest in the world and while not immune from the global economic storm was well placed to cope with future problems. More→
Support for the National Disability Insurance Scheme was announced at the December 2011 national Labor Party Conference – and the Liberal Party has indicated broad agreement. However, even though the national roll out of this person/client-centred approach will not begin until 2018, the concept of ensuring the person with a disability has a say in their life and what happens to them is accelerating. More→
A few years ago a COAG meeting agreed, in principle, that there should be harmonisation of the State Workplace Health and Safety laws and regulations across Australia. The objective was to reduce the complexity and confusion for cross-border organisations and also encourage a more pro-active and less punitive approach to safety in the workplace. The target for the legislation and regulations becoming operative was 1 January 2012. More→
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