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Bryn is 16 and has never eaten a meal. His mother’s terrified the newly-cut NDIS won’t ‘step up to keep him alive’
Sweeping changes, condemned by disability advocates, mean some scheme participantsâ funding will be reduced by 99%
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Bryn Skyes is 16 years old. He loves playing in the water on hot Ipswich days, going through the car wash with his mum and zooming down slides with his siblings.
He has also never eaten food. Brynâs disability and gastrointestinal problems mean that he has been tube-fed since infancy.
For most of his life, the costs of Brynâs food and feeding system have been covered by the Queensland childrenâs hospital but, as the process of transitioning him out of paediatric care begins, his mother, Shelley McRae, is worried changes to the NDIS mean she will be left to find an extra $50,000 a year to keep him alive.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says debt would be even worse if the other mob was still in
Without self-imposed discipline, the red numbers will continue, especially as Labor continues to seek and spend money it does not have. And boasting about it.
Just over five years ago, the alarm bells first rang regarding the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
It was a week before the 2021 May budget and then-prime minister Scott Morrison revealed the scheme would have to be topped up by an additional $13.2 billion over the next four years, just to keep up with demand.
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