Travel agents are openly marketing holidays – including visits to Disneyland in Japan and helicopter plus mini-golf tours in the Barossa Valley – to people on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, in what registered providers say is a major rort of the taxpayer-funded program.

A Senate estimates committee was told this week the NDIS was funding trips of $10,000 and $20,000, as part of damning testimony from the scheme’s integrity chief that the $44 billion system was rife with fraud.