Disability Minister Bill Shorten has warned that a Coalition proposal to delay the passage of the government’s NDIS overhaul by eight weeks will cost taxpayers $1.1 billion by leaving participants free to overspend.
Mr Shorten slammed the Coalition and Greens for potentially teaming up to send the government’s Getting the NDIS Back on Track legislation to a second Senate committee process, saying the relevant senators would not even be in the country for two of the eight weeks because they had a “junket” planned in Brazil.
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Michael Read is the Financial Review's economics correspondent, reporting from the federal press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and at UBS. Connect with Michael on Twitter. Email Michael at michael.read@afr.com
