Protest at Parliament House
6 September 2016
Protest at Parliament House – September 2016 (PDF version)
ADHC Petition Update: 25,000 Voices Crying Out for Choice Buried by the Baird Government
Help us stop the secret sell-off!
É«ÀÇÉçÇøProtest at Parliament
Disability Petition
21 September 2016
Macquarie Street Sydney
12.30pm-1.30pm
The Government that won’t listen…
Twenty-five thousand members of the community, including disability workers, carers and clients, signed the petition calling on the NSW Government not to privatise disability services and protect conditions and pay.
We know the Government will keep trying to bury and hide this privatisation, but our voices will not be silenced.
Your union, the PSA, has made numerous representations to the Government for our members in person, in writing, through media comment and through the NSW Industrial Relations Commission to stop this cruel and heartless privatisation.
The Baird Government does not listen to the people it is supposed to serve.
The Government with no heart…
NSW will be a state with no safety net provider, an under-resourced National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) riddled with problems, and people with disabilities crying out to stay with ADHC.
People with disability are being forced against their will into the private sector.
Staff are being forced against their will into the private sector.
This Government has no heart!
The Government more interested in dollars than sense…
The Baird Government has made it clear it will smash ahead with the plan to totally privatise disability services – a plan that is doomed to fail. We know this because in the UK, privatising disability services resulted in up to 35 percent cut in wages for workers.
Here in NSW 50 percent of ADHC staff who responded to a É«ÀÇÉçÇøsurvey stated they will leave the sector if privatised.
The privatisation of ADHC has the potential to leave people with disability, in particular those with high or complex needs, without much-needed help and no safety net to catch them.
Private and disjointed services will be based on cost and business models rather than the specialised needs of clients. To ensure no person with disability falls through the cracks, there must be a government safety net with skilled and supported staff. The Baird Government must put people with disability before profit.
Don’t let Baird’s big business mates profit off people with disability.
Read this Guardian article for information on the privatised UK model
Come and protest the secret sell off of our public services!