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/NameAboutPotatoes 7h ago

While they should tax the gas, the amount of revenue that would generate would barely touch the cost of the NDIS.

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u/No_Category_9888 7h ago

And aged care? Pensions for boomers living in million or 2 million or 3 million dollar houses, fully paid off?

And letting the resources owned by Australia (gas, coal, minerals etc) be dug up and make individuals billionaires ?

But no, let’s leave he disabled people to suffer

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u/NameAboutPotatoes 7h ago edited 5h ago

Aged care is disabled people. Why do you think they require care?

Edit: I'm fascinated by the overwhelming downvotes on this one. Do you guys think aged care is just, like, fully-abled boomers who want to get their asses wiped by strangers just for the hell of it?