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NDIS
Mowers, cleaners get NDIS cut
More than 50 maintenance companies sign up to $22bn NDIS to service clients including parents of children with autism.
Gillard rush left NDIS flawed
Two decisions by Julia Gillard in 2012 form the genesis of the $22bn NDIS’s current quagmire.
Bowen to defer on company tax
Labor will strengthen its claim it had fully funded the NDIS as it buys time to recalibrate its company tax policy.
Labor guilty of NDIS hypocrisy
If the scheme is ‘fully funded’, why burden the highest taxpayers with an extra levy?
States hold NDIS to ransom
Malcolm Turnbull is on a collision course with four state Labor governments over funding of the NDIS.
Families’ NDIS support slashed
NDIS executives have launched a crackdown on support funding to keep a lid on ballooning costs.
Labor feels NDIS pressure
Bill Shorten is under pressure to support the Turnbull government’s plan to fully fund the NDIS.
Medicare fight looms in Senate
Key crossbenchers warn of the levy increase’s impact on low-income earners, which may spell trouble for the PM.
Shorten clueless on NDIS figures
Bill Shorten unable to say how much a Labor government would raise for NDIS to keep deficit levy and limit Medicare levy.
ScoMo moved by family struggle
An emotional Scott Morrison has spoken of his brother-in-law, who has multiple sclerosis and relies on the NDIS.
Prepare for NDIS blowout
The cost of the NDIS bureaucracy will hit $2bn a year in the middle of the next decade.
Labor’s agonising choice
The Labor Party faces an agonising choice on the funding of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Facts point to looming fiasco
Backing for NDIS begins to unravel when consideration is given to whether its objectives will actually be met.
Greatest risk is infighting
The biggest risk is not from the opposition or the public but from dissent it might foment within the Coalition.
$55.7bn funds gap bridged
A $55bn NDIS gap will be filled by upping the medicare levy, savings from other areas and a raid.
‘Good news needs to be implemented’
The rollout of the NDIS has been rough, at best, and western Sydney mother Amanda Preece knows the toll it has taken.
NDIS bid sparks $6bn search
The government needs an extra $6bn to fully fund the NDIS and will also announce a new demerit point welfare system.
Scheme now 20,000 places behind
The landmark National Disability Insurance Scheme is running behind schedule by almost 20,000 places, a report says.
$1bn NDIS mental ‘blowout’
The Health Department has warned that the NDIS’s mental health program is on track for a cost blowout of nearly $1bn.
‘New’ mentally ill join NDIS
Half of the 4760 people with psychosocial disabilities who have accessed the trial NDIS are reportedly ‘new’ clients.
Mentally ill robbed in NDIS shift
At least $3 billion in mental health money will be “lost” as part of the National Disability Insurance Scheme rollout.
Lack of NDIS funds ‘Lib myth’
Opposition Treasury spokesman Chris Bowen maintains the National Disability Insurance Scheme is fully funded.
Direct rebuke to Gillard legacy
The charity to be headed by Julia Gillard has declared the $22bn NDIS will fail the mentally ill and cost more.
’Separate’ NDIS, mental health
The need to unpick the inclusion of mental health in the $22bn NDIS has won backing from across the political spectrum.
Mental health in NDIS ‘mistake’
The decision to include mental health support in the NDIS was a costly mistake, a mental health advocate says.
Beware new boom fallout
Jobs and costs will soar in the disability sector.
Wishlist to blow hole in NDIS
Demands by the Health Services Union would ‘have significant implications for the costs’ of the NDIS.
‘Tighten entry or watch it fail’
Eligibility rules for the $22bn NDIS must be greatly tightened to ensure its long-term viability, stakeholders have warned.
NDIS link worries crossbench
There are new signs the government’s omnibus bill is in trouble amid concerns over its links to the NDIS.
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