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From the parliamentary report of the inquiry into services provided by or funded by Ageing, Disability and Home Care (published today)

There was widespread acknowledgement among Inquiry participants that increased
expenditure, particularly through Stronger Together, has improved the availability of services
for people with disability in recent years. For example, Mr Douglas Herd, Executive Officer,
Disability Council of NSW, observed that Stronger Together funding had made a significant
difference to people with disability:

It is true to say, without wishing to be seen to be using hyperbole, that the atmosphere
before the Stronger Together policy was put in place in the sector, as it likes to
describe itself – the relationship between people with disability and the department,
between people with disability and government, between non-government advocacy
organisations and government and sometimes with non-government service providers
– was hostile and difficult at times. My personal opinion that that was because gross
levels of unmet need meant that people with disability were not getting access to
services and that family members were doing enormously difficult jobs under huge
stresses to look after and care for both themselves and family members who ought to
have been receiving services. The $1.4 billion that we subsequently got [through
Stronger Together] …has made a very significant difference. There is no doubt about
that at all.

Not my most eloquent contribution to debate but one of several quotes in the report.  Job done.  More to do.  It's what I'm paid to do and I do it well enough.  I'd rather be writing stories.

Ditch the ego Dougie.  Just write.  (But don't give up the day job just yet!!)
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