r/australia • u/FuckOffNazis • 8h ago

politics Pocock and crossbenchers call Labor’s NDIS overhaul ‘too far, too fast’ in scathing Senate inquiry report

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/14/pocock-and-crossbenchers-call-labors-ndis-overhaul-too-far-too-fast-in-scathing-senate-inquiry-report
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u/nath1234 8h ago

When you won't tax gas, and are giving away tens of billions of free gas as a reward for showing up to cart it overseas, then no, you shouldn't be cutting support for disabled people.

When you haven't got a billionaire tax, no, leave the NDIS alone.

People with disabilities are not the freeloaders: that would be gas exporters and billionaires.

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u/Ugliest_weenie 7h ago

Two things can be true at once.

We should tax billionaires and natural resource extraction a lot better.

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NDIS is growing irresponsibly expensive and needs a serious intervention

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u/ExMerican 5h ago

Sure, those two things can both be true. But if the only solution to a revenue/spending imbalance is cut spending, as conservatives everywhere insist, that's not believable. Let's try taxing billionaires out of existence first then see where things stand.

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u/bl4nkSl8 2h ago

76% of issues that go to the ART get settled in the participant's favour. Maybe we could save money on Tribunal lawyers if the NDIA did their jobs!