Labor’s contentious overhaul of the $56 billion NDIS is hitting early roadblocks as the Coalition threatens to withhold its support while states push for more detail and those with disabilities warn that major changes are being rushed through without safeguards.
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Mitchell Skipsey, a senior solicitor at the Justice and Equity Centre, said the wide-ranging bill contained several complex changes that interacted with each other, and one month was not long enough for either the public or parliamentarians to assess it properly.
“Automated decision-making, for example, is a complicated and hot button topic. There’s clearly a discussion to have about what safeguards need to be in place and how to do that well. We can’t have that conversation with the care it requires because there’s so much going on in this bill,” he said.
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Skipsey also argued that the ministerial powers were a blunt instrument in need of checks and balances. “They have to make laws for a minister they agree with, and a minister they don’t agree with,” he said.
