Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA), Women with Disabilities Victoria (WDV) and Women with Disabilities ACT (WWDACT) welcome the opportunity to respond to the consultation paper on General Foundational Supports.
We welcome the commitment of National Cabinet to fund a system of general supports accessible to all people with disabilities, with funding to fill the support gaps experienced by many in our community. Our organisations advocate on behalf of women, girls, non-binary and gender diverse people with disabilities – a cohort that experiences significant gaps in accessing disability supports, and who make up only 37% of participants in the NDIS1. A new system of Foundational Supports represents a significant opportunity for all governments to consider the needs of women, non-binary and gender diverse people with disabilities at the intersections of gender and disability, and to fund supports that allow our community to exercise their rights and to flourish.
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