Two-year wait for a wheelchair: inquiry hears of difficulty accessing NDIS for remote Indigenous communities

Royal commission told NDIA services and communications need to be tailored to meet the needs of First Nations people

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An Indigenous person living with disability in a remote Northern Territory community had to wait two years for a wheelchair, a royal commission has been told.

A report into National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) performance at Ngukurr, 635km from Darwin, found mainstream models of delivery were not working, and would not work in other remote areas.

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