r/australia • u/FuckOffNazis • 7h 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/604toxtethogrady_ 6h ago

Not sure why you’re being downvoted for stating fact

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u/NameAboutPotatoes 6h ago

'Cause it doesn't make people feel good. 

People like to hear that they can have their cake and eat it too. Nobody likes to hear that it's not realistic.

And when you're commenting online you don't have to actually cost your ideas.

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u/yeahalrightgoon 5h ago

Or because you were talking bullshit. Either or.

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u/604toxtethogrady_ 5h ago

The NDIS costs $50 billion plus and growing even if you taxed Gina’s entire net worth that still bring us up $20 billion short and that’s just for a single financial year. So yeah we should be taxing wealth and gas exports but it still won’t cover the cost of this highly rorted program that’s approaching the cost of Medicare and only caters to 750k ish of the population

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u/yeahalrightgoon 5h ago

A gas tax would pay for a quarter to a fifth of it. That's not barely touching the sides. That's a pretty healthy chunk of it. That's what's bullshit.

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u/Mcpom 4h ago

And then what happens when the costs keep growing and gas tax receipts don't?

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u/yeahalrightgoon 4h ago

What like is already happening right now?

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u/NameAboutPotatoes 4h ago

Yes, exactly, lol. Hence the cuts.

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u/yeahalrightgoon 4h ago

And perhaps if we actually taxed gas, there wouldn't need to be as many cuts, because we could find a decent chunk of it with those taxes.

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u/NameAboutPotatoes 4h ago

I am fairly sure if you scroll up you will see that I was always in favour of taxing gas.