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References

  1. Victorian Birth Defects Reports and other sources
  2. Estimates calculated based on ABS Disability Australia, 2003, ABS Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia, 2003, ABS Population Projections, 2004 to 2101
  3. National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) 2004. Who’s going to care? Informal care and an ageing population. Report prepared for Carers Australia
  4. Access Economics Pty Limited August 2005. The Economic Value of Informal Care. Report prepared for Carers Australia
  5. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), Disability in Australia: trends in prevalence, education, employment and community living, Bulletin 61, June 2008
  6. ibid
  7. Department of Families, Housing, Community Service and Indigenous Affairs, Australia’s Future Tax System Pension Review Background Paper, 2008
  8. B Edwards, D J Higgins, M Gray, N Zmijewski and M Kingston, The Nature and Impact of Caring for Family Members with a Disability in Australia, 2008
  9. In 2007/08 18,000 people ceased receipt of Carer Payment and 53% moved onto other forms of government income support
  10. Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Australia’s future tax system, Pension Review Report, Finding 23, February 2009
  11. Brendan O’Reilly, op cit
  12. See Alan Clayton, Some Reflections on the Woodhouse and ACC Legacy, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 2003
  13. Kenneth J. Arrow, Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care, The American Economic Review, December 1963
  14. Hon Bill Shorten MP, Right to an Ordinary Life, National Press Club, 1 April, 2009

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