{"id":856,"date":"2018-04-01T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T23:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/?p=856"},"modified":"2021-02-15T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T01:26:14","slug":"ndis-from-idea-to-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/2018\/04\/01\/ndis-from-idea-to-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"NDIS: From idea to policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The full article is available in the following formats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Click to download<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-primary-background-color no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/NDIS-by-Kirsten-Deane-Voice-April-2018.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-primary-background-color no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/NDIS-by-Kirsten-Deane-Voice-April-2018.docx\">WORD<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kirsten Deane<\/strong> has worked in the disability and advocacy sector many years  including with Every Australian Counts, and was part of the major advocacy campaign that helped make the NDIS a reality. In this article she explains how community engagement and persistence can help turn an idea into national policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1458\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/ndis-group-photo.jpg\" alt=\"NDIS group photo\" class=\"wp-image-858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/ndis-group-photo.jpg 1458w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/ndis-group-photo-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/ndis-group-photo-1200x598.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/ndis-group-photo-600x299.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1458px) 100vw, 1458px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018Experienced and well respected political commentators and analysts have even gone so far as to suggest that the age of reform is over in Australia. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2026But the National Disability Insurance Scheme is the reform that proves them wrong, and the Every Australian Counts is the campaign that proves ordinary people can still use their voice to create big changes.<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>First published in Voice, April 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further reading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep up to date with the campaign at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everyaustraliancounts.com.au\/\">Every Australian Counts website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spread the word by commenting below and sharing this post<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full article is available in the following formats Click to download Kirsten Deane has worked in the disability and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,9,12],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advocacy","tag-down-syndrome","tag-ndis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}