2022: Part 3/6: Defending the NDIS ~ A Copernican Challenge for the Actuarial Model

My article in InnovationAus published on 26 April 2022.

PDF of the article can be found here.

The first article in the series ‘Defending the NDIS’, looked at the horrific complexity caused by the actuarial fiction of ‘primary disability’. The second article zeroed in onthe unholy mess of assistive technology and the omission of Return on Investment in the NDIS financial sustainability analysis.

Fictions and omissions have distorted and weaponised commentary over the NDIS in this election period, and in fact since the scheme was established.

This third article is a Copernican challenge to the actuarial model: the construct sitting at the very centre of the NDIS.

Here we see the greatest fiction told: that the participant is at the centre of the NDIS. This fiction distorts everything.