Griffith Law School, Griffith University.
Australian Legal Practitioner, Queensland Public Sector.
J Law Med. 2020 Dec;28(1):145-164.
One of Australia's biggest reforms - the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) - is intended to provide people with choice and certainty of access to disability supports. It replaced an underfunded, unfair, fragmented and inefficient "system". However, recently, the NDIS has received criticism in regard to access and the provision of supports. These issues, addressed elsewhere, have arguably arisen due to concerns about cost. This article pre-empts these concerns by bridging a gap between the extra-legal academic literature concerning the NDIS and the sparse literature concerning NDIS law. It does so by providing a detailed exposition of the NDIS legal framework embedded in the relevant interdisciplinary extra-legal literature. It concludes that if the NDIS is to succeed it cannot be dominated by concern with the financial sustainability of the system.
澳大利亚最大的改革之一——国家残疾保险计划（NDIS）——旨在为人们提供残疾支持的选择和可及性。它取代了一个资金不足、不公平、分散和低效的“系统”。然而，最近，NDIS 在可及性和支持提供方面受到了批评。这些问题在其他地方已经得到解决，由于对成本的担忧，这些问题已经出现。本文通过弥合有关 NDIS 的超法律学术文献与有关 NDIS 法律的稀少文献之间的差距，预先解决了这些担忧。它通过详细阐述相关跨学科超法律文献中嵌入的 NDIS 法律框架来实现这一点。本文的结论是，如果 NDIS 要取得成功，就不能只关注该系统的财务可持续性。
