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Minns says NSW won’t have enough capacity to provide similar services to those removed from NDIS
Minns maintained the state government didn’t have the capacity to provide services to tens of thousands expected to be taken off the NDIS in NSW amid the governments changes announced this week.
We can’t and I think we need to be really honest about that. If there’s going to be changes to the NDIS – and I’m not a state leader who’s knocking the federal government’s right and probably responsibility to reform the NDIS, it’s cost too much money – but we have to be really frank with people.
We can’t offer at the state level the kinds of services that are being rolled out at the NDIS.
It seems to happen every 10 years or so and, if we have got other ways of powering our economy through renewable resources and gas and coal, then that’s a good thing right now for Australia.
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