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Aaron Bunch

NDIS failed in remote areas, inquiry told

The National Disability Insurance Scheme has failed in remote Indigenous communities, a royal commission has been told.

The market-based model relies on funding for disabled people's care driving the growth of service provision, Northern Territory Public Guardian Beth Walker told the disability inquiry on Tuesday.

"The market has not responded and so people's needs are not being fully met because of the lack of availability of services," she said at the hearing in Alice Springs.

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