The Tasmanian Liberal senator has announced he will leave parliament before the end of the year. Follow the day’s news live
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Mark Butler, health minister and minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, has been speaking to ABC’s Insiders this morning about the changes to the NDIS.
People with disability and their advocates have told a senate inquiry into the changes that people will die as a consequence of those changes; Butler claims they won’t. He told Insiders:
The NDIS is probably the most significant social reform this country has made since Medicare in the ‘80s. It’s transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Australians for the better and I completely understand why they’re desperately concerned to hang on to that reform. I’m desperately concerned to do that as well.
But the truth is the NDIS has got way off track. It’s grown far too big. It costs too much. And it’s become a honey pot for shonks and rorters and that’s why I’ve laid out this comprehensive plan, much of which reflects discussions that have been ongoing since the NDIS review was delivered three years ago now to secure its future for people like those who are giving evidence to the Senate inquiry.
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