Research // Donna Baines

The Australia Institute Tasmania The Australia Institute South Australia
Centre for Future Work Carmichael Centre Nordic Policy Centre Centre for Responsible Technology Centre for Sex & Gender Equality
ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA

November 2019

Insecure & Precarious Work, Public Sector, Procurement & Privatisation

Precarity and Job Instability on the Frontlines of NDIS Support Work

by Donna Baines, Fiona Macdonald, Jim Stanford and Jessie Moore

The national roll-out of the NDIS holds the prospect of a significant enhancement in both the resources allocated to disability services in Australia, and the autonomy and flexibility of service delivery for people with disability. But it also constitutes an enormous logistical and organisational challenge. And the market-based service delivery model built into the NDIS is exacerbating those challenges, by unleashing a widespread fragmentation and casualisation of work in disability services.

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