Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee (part 2 of 3)
5 June 2026
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Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee Australian Parliament
00:00 - 01:10
Speaker 1
The the justice liaison officers who are part of the justice, planning team as well are the face to face, in terms of working with all, generally, nearly all correctional facilities across the country. So we are aware very, very quickly around whether somebody is needing access to the agency through our justice liaison officers. So that's one way that we were able to collect data, around people that may be having access or coming into the scheme. We also, use a a dataset from, Centrelink as well that provides some matching for us as well when we, Centrelink is a really great opportunity for us to understand when somebody's in and out of the justice system and if they may be an NDIS participant. And we're working extremely closely with states and territories to really refine that.
There are obviously local operational processes that that work really, really well, and we'll continue to work with states and territories to refine that data, in terms of being able to get real life, real time data with states and territories across the board.
01:10 - 01:36
Speaker 6
Okay. So, the request from minister Shorten to act for the states to actually proactively provide that data, You're saying to me that you... That the NDIA still does not have a data set apart from a point in time that you referred to. So there's sort of no real time or, requirement for the states and territories under that particular section 55 I think you referred to.
01:36 - 01:40
Speaker 1
That's correct, senator. It's a a a point in time, but regular data sharing
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