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COTA Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide comments in response to the Issues Paper on the Review of Disability Standards for Accessible Transport.

COTA Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on draft legislation to implement the higher concessional superannuation contributions cap that was announced on 5 April 2013.

COTA welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the Issues Paper as we have taken a strong interest in all the work around prudential regulation of accommodation bonds.

Our Submission reflects concerns older people have raised with us with regard to the way the NDIS is designed.

We are urging the Government to use this Budget to address some major and urgent inequities in our society. Some initiatives we have asked for previously. These include an increase in Commonwealth Rent Assistance and improvements to Newstart and other allowances.

COTA now welcomes the exposure draft of the Bill and the opportunity to put a submission to the Committee. In our Submission we focus on a few key issues that we believe the Committee should consider in its examination of the exposure draft.