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The Hard Part Has only Just Started on NDIS Reform
Butler said the overhaul will cut forecast NDIS spending to $55 billion by 2030 and reduce participant numbers to 600,000.
- Federal Health Minister Mark Butler unveiled a $15 billion NDIS overhaul on Wednesday at the National Press Club, declaring the scheme would no longer be "an ATM for shonks, grifters, fraudsters and crooks."
- The NDIS costs $50 billion annually and has swelled from 400,000 participants at inception to 760,000 currently, growing at 22 per cent when Labor took office—a rate described as unsustainable.
- New eligibility rules will replace diagnosis-based access with "standardised, evidence-based assessments of a person's functional capacity," reducing participants to around 600,000 by 2030 and removing about 160,000 people with lower support needs.
- Deputy Opposition Leader Jane Hume signaled bipartisan support to bring the NDIS "back under control," while Greens leader Larissa Waters called the plan "a cynical political exercise from Labor."
- Federal NDIS spending will grow at 2 per cent annually for four years before returning to 5 per cent from 2030, forming what Treasurer Jim Chalmers called the largest part of May's budget savings package.
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Australia Moves to Rein In Ballooning Cost of Disability Program
(Bloomberg) — Australia’s center-left government is moving to rein in the ballooning costs of its signature disability welfare program as it tries to frame next month’s budget against the backdrop of a global energy crisis.
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Leaning Left4Leaning Right5Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution46% Right
Bias Distribution
- 46% of the sources lean Right
46% Right
L 36%
C 18%
R 46%
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