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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Minda Incorporated

The Hon. T.T. NGO (15:05): I have a question to the Minister for Human Services about disability. Given reports that Minda receives around 20 per cent of its funding from the Marshall state government, can the minister explain why she only thinks the commonwealth NDIS is responsible for any issues with the organisation, and not South Australia?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:06): I thank the honourable member for his question. I did read that in the paper with some interest. I am not quite sure which financial year it would have been. There you go, it is the 2019-20 annual report, so that is not even the most recent annual report.

The NDIS transition was completed on 1 July 2019. Certainly, in terms of the programs within DHS that are funded to Minda, there is only a very small program, that is, for an occasional number of what we call voluntary out-of-home care clients which is generally speaking adolescents whose behavioural challenges have meant that they need to particularly have some respite care otherwise they may be at risk of being diverted into the child protection system. There are generally only very small numbers of those, so I am not quite sure where that 20 per cent figure comes from.

But certainly in terms of jurisdiction for NDIS clients, it is very clear through the legislation—I am not going to repeat it again; well, maybe I should because the Labor Party seem to not have the capacity to comprehend that the 'N' in NDIS stands for national, and the regulator is the NDIS commission.

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