Repeated cost blowouts of the $30 billion-plus National Disability Insurance Scheme have alarmed healthcare and social welfare advocates, who fear other sectors are being forced to suffer funding cuts while the unrestrained NDIS offers a bottomless pit of money.
Hassan Noura, a social welfare economist and former National Disability Insurance Agency executive, criticised the inequity between uncapped funding for the NDIS and the government reducing the number of subsidised mental health appointments.
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John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
