NDIS Minister Bill Shorten says the best way to reform the NDIS is not to simply “cap and scrap” the scheme. “And it’s certainly not by what some on the far-left say, you can’t touch anything,” he told Sky News Australia. “If you put the best interest of people with disability first when you make funding decisions, if you make sure that every dollar gets to the people for whom the scheme was designed, I’ve got no doubt the NDIS has got a great future.”
NDIS Minister Bill Shorten says the best way to reform the NDIS is not to simply “cap and scrap” the scheme.
“And it’s certainly not by what some on the far-left say, you can’t touch anything,” he told Sky News Australia. “If you put the best interest of people with disability first when you make funding decisions, if you make sure that every dollar gets to the people for whom the scheme was designed, I’ve got no doubt the NDIS has got a great future.”
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