The NDIS was meant to be based on free market principles and the individual. But its ballooning costs are now requiring major Federal Government intervention.
Roger Cook has warned that the States will not bear all the costs of federal cuts to the NDIS as Health Minister Mark Butler eyes tighter regulation and a reset of eligibility to rein in the runaway program.
The tax burden on Australians is at the highest level in almost two decades, new government data shows, with a former Reserve Bank official warning it is likely to get even worse.
Australia risks being exploited by the ‘predatory’ behaviour of international superpowers as the world order is eroded, a damning new human rights report has found.
Australia’s economy is being held hostage to ‘decisions taken in Washington and Tehran’, Jim Chalmers has lamented as he flagged the Budget’s major savings will be found in the NDIS.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says any plan to dilute the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount will be about addressing intergenerational unfairness in housing.