NDIS Minister Bill Shorten is “hopelessly out of his depth” as the Labor government is sending two “very stark and different messages” on the sustainability of the NDIS funding, says Shadow NDIS Minister Michael Sukkar.
His comments come after this week’s financial review reported the NDIS cost is growing at a faster rate than any other area of spending outside of interest on the national debt.
“On one hand, Bill Shorten before the election, said there was no sustainability issues with the NDIS – no plan would go backwards under his watch,” Mr Sukkar told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “Yet since the election we see a concerted effort from the government to continue to highlight the lack of sustainability, in their view, of the NDIS –and we saw the budget blown on the NDIS in October of $8.8 billion.
“Yesterday we see reports in the papers that we’re now seeing an additional $5.7 billion blowout in the scheme – that’s a huge number to have blown out since October. “We’re seeing the government try to walk back the assurances that they gave Australians before the election – on one hand you’ve got a minister saying one thing, a Treasurer and a Prime Minister saying something else – and quite frankly the numbers which paint a different picture as well.”
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