Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

We have reached agreement with all states and territories to deliver DisabilityCare Australia with the exception, unfortunately, of Western Australia. These agreements mean that around 90 per cent of Australians will be covered by DisabilityCare if they are born with or acquire a significant and permanent disability. But we want to make this 100 per cent. A truly national scheme will mean that Australians with disability will receive the support they need regardless of where they live. I know that people with disability and their families and carers in Western Australia want to be part of DisabilityCare, and so I urge Premier Colin Barnett to join his colleagues in other states and sign on for the full scheme. I thank the states and territories for the work they are doing with us to build DisabilityCare Australia. It is the reform of a generation; it is a reform whose time has come. (Time expired)