2022: Part 6/6: Defending the NDIS ~ Governance for the National Disability Investment System
My article in InnovationAus published on 17 May 2022.
PDF of the article can be found here.
It should not take Royal Commissions and class actions to remediate the intractable defects that exist within the NDIS, but the community demands justice and safety. So catastrophic is the crisis that a backlash at the polls is inevitable. Far worse than the polls, lives are at risk.
This sixth and final article in Defending the NDIS series pulls at the serious problems of governance design, systemic risk, and the silence of harm.
The first article dealt with the complexity of the system. The second article exposed the ‘word salad’ of assistive technology. The third article pulled apart the actuarial model that has helped destroy the scheme. The fourth article was an insider’s look at what happened when the government took a wrecking ball to the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s operating model.
And the fifth article looked at the hunger games of suffering and harm caused by the unregulated and indiscriminate use of powerful algorithms by the state.
Together, the six articles present a case study of the distortionary and human rights impact of defective design and governance. It is a case study of the electoral impact of the failings of digital government services.
