A decade on, the NDIS has had triumphs, challenges and controversies. Where to from here?

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Officially launched in July 2013, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) reached full rollout in 2020.

The idea for such a scheme existed since the Whitlam government in the 1970s, but only really gathered steam after Australia became one of the original state signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in 2007.