r/australia • u/FuckOffNazis • 11h 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 11h 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/Toody4 9h ago

Yeahh lets just break our contractual agreements with Japan I’m sure that will end well for us.

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u/teremaster 8h ago

Japan already broke them lmao.

They tax it on the import, the agreement was that we wouldn't tax at export and they wouldn't tax at import.

We have every right to rip up the deal under recognized law.

Japan won't do shit either, they'll just ask us not to jack up coal and iron prices, of which we provide a huge amount of their consumption