And active participants in the decisions that directly affect us, and in the decisions, sorry, the design of the systems and services that are meant to support us and protect us. [...] [ 00:32:28 ] And one of the reasons I was in the US was, in fact, to promote the cause of having the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Older People, which is a slow process. [...] It's my view, and the view of many in the disabled community, that the current proposal to put the NDIS back on track, proposed by the government, is not the way to do that. [...] I think the fact that stories of abuse and neglect, just the kind of limiting of disabled life, in the Royal Commission were not in singular numbers, but instead in the hundreds and often in the thousands, show you that there's fundamentally something wrong with the way we view, approach and handle the lives of disabled people in this country. [...] [ 00:59:40 ] And what we are trying to push for from the outside is to ensure that they are skilled and they get educated further in the relevant issues that police is dealing with, which is the support of the issues in the community.
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