Name: House of Representatives Chamber (part 2 of 3)
Uploaded: 2026-07-01T02:50:00+00:00

00:00 - 02:34

Speaker 8

I don't think I did say to the member for Ryan that this was the responsibility of states. It is a responsibility that we share with states. It's a joint responsibility of the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments. Let me make this point. The NDIS, when we built it out of the productivity commission report and all of the debate that that was around that, preceded it, and was around it, was intended effectively as a tier one system of supports for people with disability, particularly with permanent and significant disability.

It was never intended to cover the field, as the member rightly knows. There are a range of other different systems of support that people with disability rely upon every single day in health, in education, and the idea of foundational supports as a central recommendation of the NDIS review was essentially a recognition that that second tier of supports that was a fundamental recommendation of the productivity commission had never been actioned had never been actioned. Now all governments are accountable for fixing that, for redressing that, I think, missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle that didn't happen over the last decade or so. All governments are accountable for that, Commonwealth and states and territory, but it's not appropriate that we be accountable through an act that is set up to provide NDIS supports. These are not NDIS supports, and so we will not be supporting these amendments.

Look forward very much to continue to engage with the crossbench about the development of foundational supports. Thriving kids is effectively the first cab off the rank, but we've got a lot of work to do for kids over nine that the member would understand better than most in this house. We have a ton of work to do for people with psychosocial disability who are not receiving really any support, and the unmet needs analysis that was that was, put together as as part of the bilateral agreements that, we have on mental health and suicide prevention that the assistant minister at the table has been an important part of, found that two hundred and thirty thousand or so Australians right now today with severe and chronic mental illness are effectively getting no support whatsoever. So this is a complex area. The member understands that.

This is not an area that I seek to duck shove to states, as the member suggests in her remarks. I see this as very much a joint responsibility between the Commonwealth and the states, but not one that will be discharged through this particular piece of legislation. The

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