‘Balance budget in nine years’
Jim Chalmers can return the budget to balance within nine years and reduce debt to near zero by 2045, PwC Australia modelling shows.
NDIS
Autism study ‘a pointer for NDIS’
The new concept of ‘profound autism’ is having ramifications around the world, and could have implications for the NDIS, an autism expert says
Shorten’s ‘problem child’ is out of control
The NDIS needs more than the rebooting Bill Shorten is promising. It requires re-engineering from the bottom up.
Autism to cost budget $8.25bn: will the safety net break?
The NDIS is a lifeline for four-year-old Eddie’s family. As the number of children being diagnosed grows, experts discuss ways to protect the support for families.
It’s Labor’s baby but young workers will pay
Unless Jim Chalmers gets more for the care dollar, millennials and Gen Z will be stuck with a massive bill for an ageing Australia.
Shorten takes long view on NDIS
NDIS Minister Bill Shorten says the government will seek to limit support for people with a disability to what is ‘reasonable and necessary’, as it looks to curb spiralling costs.
A lot at stake in Shorten’s NDIS reform plan
Bill Shorten has set himself a huge political and budget challenge in making the NDIS sustainable, but the government’s budget may depend on it.
No pressure to ‘slash and burn’ NDIS
Bill Shorten says he is committed to making the NDIS sustainable and has outlined his plan to get the maligned scheme back on track.
Global ‘economic headwinds’ to temper budget
Next month’s federal budget will balance assistance for those in need while avoiding adding to inflationary pressure, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.
Rebooting the NDIS a necessity
Mr Shorten’s reform of the scheme must ensure it is sustainable.
NDIS ‘lost its way’: Shorten vows reboot
Bill Shorten will intensify the crackdown on unethical practices to ensure all NDIS funding is spent on participants and not finding its way into the pockets of criminals.
Enhanced protection for NDIS participants
The 585,000 Australians on the NDIS are at almost twice the risk of violence as others. A new policy is now in place to help safeguard them from violence, abuse and exploitation.
Hanson slammed over ‘repugnant’ video
One Nation and Pauline Hanson have been condemned over a video about the NDIS that disability groups have labelled as “hateful and discriminatory”.
Act early on autism for NDIS savings
Every dollar invested in early therapy for babies displaying autism signs can return $3 to the $34bn a year National Disability Insurance Scheme, new research shows.
Blueprint to stop economic luck running out
Unless productivity improves in services such as health and disability services, they will continue to be a taxpayer drain, Productivity Commission report warns.
NDIS needs cost control, not the politics of subs
Good budget sense will allow for both defence and disability sense.
AUKUS costs ‘give permission to reform NDIS’
A peak disability expert says the added budget pressure of AUKUS now gives the government ‘permission’ to make radical changes to the NDIS.
Flawed NDIS demands hardcore Labor reforms
Bill Shorten was given the chance to fix the system he helped create. His first 285 days as minister in charge have hardly been encouraging.
Reynolds warns of NDIS autism ‘bias’
Former NDIS minister Linda Reynolds says soaring rates of autistic children registered on the National Disability Insurance Scheme are ‘shocking’.
Autism diagnosis needs our help
Not just parents are being exploited, and Bill Shorten must act.
When wokeism wants your money, it’s time to worry
You can bet your last superannuated dollar the Albanese government won’t stop with the $3m cap on concessionally taxed balances it sprang on us last week.
‘Calls on autism must be neutral’
Governments should reconsider a plan to use independent functional assessments to determine whether children with autism are eligible for the NDIS, a leading advocate says.
NDIS rules fuel diagnoses rise in autism kids
Children are being diagnosed with more severe autism than their characteristics warrant to give them a greater chance of securing a place on the NDIS, experts warn.
Too many young dying in aged care
More than 10,000 younger people have died in residential aged care over the past decade.
Q+A’s latest anti-Coalition pile-on corners Robert
The former government minister was on a hiding to nothing when host Stan Grant, NDIS Minister Bill Shorten and Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John got stuck into him.
NDIS, debt costs surge raise budget pain
Double-digit annual growth in the cost of the NDIS and debt-servicing will heap further pressure on the budget, as Treasury warns of a global downturn hitting exports.
Nation can’t afford to just keep expanding the NDIS
I despair that we have become a nation that has lost touch with economic reality. Medicare is costing $34bn a year while the NDIS now costs $33bn a year and there are calls for it to go still higher.
Newspoll: Fumbling Albo takes knock, ALP still ahead
Anthony Albanese has suffered a fall in his approval ratings, with popular support for Labor also dropping with one week to go.
Political prey: Albanese puts faith in attack
Anthony Albanese went on the attack on Friday as he fended off ongoing questions about his stumble over the detail of Labor’s NDIS policy.
Is this man up to leading us through danger and difficulty?
Just watched Albo blow it again – he did not know the six points of the ALP NDIS policy.
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