The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Minister Bill Shorten claimed the Coalition did 'two bits of bugger all' in preventing rorting of the scheme while in power.
NDIS Minister Bill Shorten has lashed out at the Coalition’s “naivety and negligence” in tackling rorting of the scheme when in power as damning revelations exposed upwards of $2 billion used in error.The National Disability Insurance Scheme Minister Bill Shorten claimed the Coalition did"two bits of bugger all" in preventing rorting of the scheme while in power.
Mr Shorten has poked the finger at the Coalition after revelations of NDIS rorting arose. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman The NDIS Minister continued to criticise the Opposition’s “negligence” in addressing how money from the nation’s second-largest budget expense was being used. The Labor minister said under the Coalition government, only about 20 invoices were checked a day and claims put in between 5.00pm and 6.30pm were not checked.
“There are not enough prosecutions of fraud, and it’s startling that the government has waved the white flag on more criminal prosecutions,” the Liberal minister said.
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