July
Senate urged to pass NDIS bill to get reforms back on track
Disability advocates have called for reforms to the NDIS to be passed despite protests that some recommendations could be catastrophic for the severely disabled.
- Tom Burton
What businesses are doing right for this group of workers
Not only did it mean Shelley could work in a step-free environment catered to her needs, but it also meant she didn’t have to ask for special treatment.
- Euan Black
‘Not sustainable’: sex work, steam rooms, crypto to be banned on NDIS
Payments for sex work will be banned under changes to National Disability Insurance Scheme funding, with federal Labor conceding a wide range of services being billed to taxpayers are unsustainable.
- Tom McIlroy
Surge in NDIS top-up claims costing $5.5m a day
The number of NDIS participants seeking unscheduled top-ups has jumped by 50 per cent as landmark reforms to control galloping costs are stalled in the Senate
- Tom Burton
The education method that’s made this family millions
When Charles and Colette Assaf bought a Montessori childcare business in 2000, the IT entrepreneur never expected it would become his family’s future.
- Yolanda Redrup
June
NDIS ‘unsustainable’ and ‘out of control’: Wayne Swan
Mr Swan was one of the architects of the NDIS, which is growing at 20 per cent per year and on track to become the most expensive area of government spending.
- Michael Read
- Exclusive
- Bill Shorten
NDIS to cost $100b, exceeding the pension: budget watchdog
The NDIS is on track to overtake the age pension as the most expensive area of spending within three years if it remains stuck on its current trajectory.
- Michael Read
NDIS delay to cost $1.1b as senators jet off to Brazil
Disability Minister Bill Shorten warns that a Coalition proposal to delay the government’s NDIS overhaul by two months will cost taxpayers $137 million per week.
- Michael Read
Revealed: The shady industry taking a holiday on the NDIS
Unregistered disability service providers are marketing holidays worth up to $20,000 that the taxpayer ends up funding, exposing a fundamental weakness in the NDIS.
- Tom Burton
- Updated
- Public service
‘Too late to prosecute’: Fraud rife among NDIS managers
The integrity chief for the NDIS says nine out of 10 plan managers surveyed showed “significant indicators of fraud” including using scheme money for drugs and alcohol.
- Tom Burton
May
NDIS reforms can’t wait for a ‘magical unicorn day’: Shorten
Disability Minister Bill Shorten says premiers should stop using disabled people as a political football, after the states called for delays to NDIS reforms.
- Tom Burton
NDIS rorters push to spend more before reforms take effect
Unscrupulous providers are pushing participants in the disability scheme to spend up before changes limit cost growth of the $44 billion scheme.
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- Workplace culture
Just one gesture stopped Anthony worrying about his disability at work
Employers often assume that employing people with a disability is costly. New research suggests that’s not true.
- Euan Black
April
Millions wasted as NDIS scraps training program that produced nothing
Advocates have lashed the axing of the scheme that would have enabled people with disabilities to work in NDIS auditing teams.
- Gus McCubbing
This former tennis champ is chasing unicorns and dancing pantless
Dylan Alcott has a dizzying list of achievements from 15 tennis Grand Slams to being Australian of the Year. Now, he’s chasing start-ups and performing with Jason Donovan.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- Bill Shorten
We got it wrong on ‘wasteful’ NDIS: former PC boss
Gary Banks has conceded the recommendation to create the National Disability Insurance Scheme was flawed, and has called for major reforms to limit eligibility.
- Michael Read
March
New rules aim to cut 11 per cent growth in NDIS plans
Experts say new powers to thwart unscrupulous care providers encouraging disabled people to overspend will help cap surging costs.
- Tom Burton
NDIS is as popular as Medicare, study shows
Redbridge research reveals deep community support for the national disability insurance scheme, underscoring why both sides of politics are wary of criticism despite massive cost blowouts.
- Tom Burton
February
- Opinion
- Opinion
I predicted NDIS disaster. Here’s how to make it sustainable
Instead of a demand-led and open-ended scheme, it is perfectly ethical and practical to calculate the total level of funding needed and then distribute it fairly.
- Simon Duffy
- Opinion
- The AFR View
NDIS entitlement flawed from the start
The scheme has operated as a honey pot that has predictably attracted too many participants.
- The AFR View
