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August 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Funding for the full National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) must come from the commonwealth, Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu says.
After a short stand-off with the federal government, Mr Baillieu last week increased the state’s funding commitment to enable a trial of the NDIS in the Barwon region.
Part of the stand-off was over the terms of the full rollout of the scheme.
On Sunday, federal Disabilities Minister Jenny Macklin said state premiers liked to frame the Productivity Commission’s report into the scheme as saying the commonwealth should fund it.
But she said the report actually said the commonwealth should pay and recoup some inefficient taxes back from the states.
Mr Baillieu said the Productivity Commission made it clear that the expansion funding should come from the commonwealth, as did COAG’s select council on disability reform.
“The states have made it clear through COAG, and that’s recorded in the select council’s report to COAG and the report to the commonwealth, that the expansion funding should come, must come from the commonwealth, and we would stand by that,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
“I know Jenny Macklin has made some comments which simply reinforced that we took absolutely the right step last week, in taking our time to assess what the commonwealth were proposing, and there were multiple proposals put in front of us, and they did it in a very elevated, rhetorical way.
“The prime minister has written to me and made it very clear that there are no precedents in the trial.
“That may be the case but we are, as the other states are, of the view that we’re not going to generate expectations which can’t be met in the longer term or about which we have concerns in the longer term, and hence, in the trial the expansion funding is a matter for the commonwealth.”
Ms Macklin says the government is in the process of drafting legislation, which it hopes to introduce to parliament as soon as possible to establish the scheme.
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