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Celebrate the NDIS: participants say successes have been ignored

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A woman wearing a black blouse holding one of her three Paralympic medals
   (ABC News: Billy Cooper)

It's been a year of change at the National Disability Insurance Scheme with the government announcing new leadership and a wide reaching review. 

Questions about the scheme's viability and whether it provides value for money, have angered disability advocates and participants.

They say the NDIS is an investment in people with disability and their contributions to society are being overlooked. 

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Janelle Armstrong, NDIS participant
Prof Helen Dickinson, University of NSW  
Bill Shorten, Minister for the NDIS

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