$80bn budget blow from interest rate hikes
Wednesday’s mid-year budget update will reveal interest costs are set to supplant the NDIS as the fastest growing expense.
NDIS
Labor’s big promise to 600k Aussies
Australians moving off the NDIS in the wake of a landmark review will not be left to fend for themselves, Bill Shorten says.
Warning to states: expect huge disability bill
The states face an enormous bill to deliver enough disability services outside the NDIS to ensure the nation’s children with autism receive the support they need.
Shoring up NDIS for long term
‘A human right which cannot be sustained is a human right denied’
Bigger economic pie needs courage, not just accounting
New workplace relations changes are a move in the wrong direction.
Gains wiped in PM’s budget ‘fix’
The GST and health deal the Prime Minister struck with the states is set to virtually erase $30bn in NDIS savings promised in the May budget.
Labor’s IR breakthrough leaves bosses humiliated
The government’s deal with the crossbench should be an overdue lesson to the corporate sector about the realities of the numbers in the parliament.
NDIS reality check: ‘ditch the diagnosis’
NDIS eligibility should be determined by how a person’s disability affects their everyday life a review of the $42bn scheme says.
Support where kids ‘live, play and learn’
The one in five children with a disability or developmental issue need better access to support and much of it should be provided by government outside the NDIS.
Changes aiming to shore up scheme
Bill Shorten says the NDIS won’t pay unregistered providers and has put the sector on notice over returns to businesses providing disability services.
Accommodation must be established
States must upgrade all ageing specialist disability accommodation stock and the NDIA should commission SDA in regional areas rather than leaving it to the market to meet demand.
‘States’ goodwill on NDIS can’t be relied on’
Bill Shorten must introduce ‘hard lines’ for states and territories if they fail to stump up on foundational supports for people with disability outside the NDIS, advocates say.
Dutton finishes 2023 in the political ascendancy
After two months of punishing defeats and mistakes, Anthony Albanese looked tired during this year’s final QT. A government is in the doldrums when it loses the Christmas valedictories.
‘Inevitable’: Big admission on NDIS
Bill Shorten says considerable work needs to be put in to ensure the NDIS is future-proof, and the government is committed.
‘Economic vandals’: furious miners threaten Labor
MCA chief executive Tania Constable has warned of a widespread campaign attacking the Albanese government in the wake of its IR bill stoking concern its policies are hitting the economy but benefiting unions.
GST gifts to win deal on NDIS funds
States and territories will get more than $10.5bn in GST top-ups and tens of billions in extra funding to seal an agreement doubling their NDIS contributions.
This is the chance for reset and reboot
The Prime Minister and state leaders agreeing the NDIS needs to return to its original intent to support only those with the most profound disability offers the opportunity for a scheme reset.
New deal on non-NDIS support
Federal and state governments have struck a deal on NDIS funding that will see more disability support provided outside the scheme, including in settings like schools and childcare.
Albo caves to states’ tax threat
Anthony Albanese will stump up more cash to state governments in return for a deal to support key reforms to rein in the cost of the NDIS.
Fourth freed detainee arrested by AFP
Another man released following High Court ruling charged after allegedly stealing luggage, as Labor rejects Coalition calls to amend redrafted citizenship cessation laws to include child sex offenders and people who promote genocide.
Albo’s wayward flock
While the Christmas break gives Anthony Albanese the time to gather his wayward flock for some well-needed training, NDIS Minister Bill Shorten will be busy dusting off the box of curtains prematurely purchased in 2019.
Fears NDIS review will urge cutting of clients
Some participants could be moved off the NDIS if recommendations of a key review are implemented, Victoria’s Disability Minister warns.
Detainee fallout: Active pedophile, absent ministers
A freed child-sex offender has been charged with three counts of having contact with a juvenile, as Labor’s preventative detention regime clears the Senate.
Preventative detention bill passes senate
The government’s amendments to the bill legislating a preventative detention regime on detainees released under a landmark High Court decision has passed in the senate by 33 to 8 votes.
NDIA ordered to ‘come clean’ on $1m plans
Australians with disabilities are on plans near $2m a year, amid calls for transparency on how many multimillion-dollar plans are on the $42bn a year scheme.
NDIS needs urgent reform to cut costs
Amid a federal-state costs squabble, a disability expert says NDIS reforms will have to be introduced quickly to bring down the steep trajectory of scheme expense.
Albo to fight new tax threat from states
A push by the government to contain the spiralling cost of the NDIS could be dead on arrival, with states threatening to boycott the deal.
‘Catastrophic failure’: freed detainees arrested
Two of the 148 dangerous non-citizens released from immigration detention following the High Court’s landmark decision have been arrested within a month.
Don’t cry poor on disability: Shorten
Bill Shorten has accused the states of downplaying billions of dollars in current federal funding amid an increasingly acrimonious national cabinet negotiation.
NDIS reforms ‘will focus on future participants’
Bill Shorten has reassured people living with disability and their families there will be a ‘transparent transition’ amid reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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