The NDIS may be one of modern Labor’s biggest reforms, but the unwieldy scheme has come at a big cost politicians will spend years wrangling.
With his exit from politics in the diary for tomorrow, former Labor leader and outgoing National Disability Insurance Scheme Minister Bill Shorten is reflecting on the service behemoth that is his portfolio’s namesake.
“This is an example of Australian exceptionalism,” he said of the 11-year-old scheme introduced by former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard, with which he has had a long history – dating from his appointment as parliamentary secretary for disabilities in the Rudd government in 2007., as he installed former disability royal commissioner Rhonda Galbally to the scheme’s administering board, and said he would trust the Coalition to run the scheme.
A taste of the impact of cuts came late last year, when the job security of hundreds of art and music therapists was threatened after several providers in discussions with the NDIS were left with the impression funding would end.
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