This Month
Stand up to whinging gas giants
Readers’ letters on a controversial drawing in The Australian Financial Review, gas tax, replacing Jacinta Allan, and self-managed superannuation funds.
NDIS cuts loom amid Treasury productivity push
Labor is looking to halve growth in spending on Australia’s $52 billion disability insurance scheme as it pushes to improve productivity and save money.
NDIS spends $12b on support for walks, movies, haircuts
A rise in the cost of community support like cafe visits and assistance with dog walks is driving a significant blowout of the scheme’s overall budget.
KKR weighs options for $1b disability housing bet
The buyout giant’s real estate dealmakers started interviewing investment banks last month, asking for their ideas and experience in the living sector.
Blame diagnostic inflation for the NDIS’ $10b Autism bill
Because diagnosis has become the gateway to funding, the National Disability Insurance Scheme requires redesign, not administrative reform.
February
‘More regulation to pull a beer’: NDIS providers under fire
The sheer volume of unregistered NDIS providers who do not have to comply to specific standards has raised further integrity and sustainability concerns.
Postcode clusters tell the tale of out-of-control NDIS
Policy failures have enabled the proliferation of dodgy shopfront providers identified in our cluster postcodes story.
December 2025
How to access total and permanent disability benefits from super
Super funds typically offer income protection – or salary continuance – for temporary inability to work, and a lump sum benefit for permanent inability to work in any job.
NDIS failing thousands with psychosocial disability: Grattan
Work has stalled on a national cabinet commitment to provide support to 130,000 Australians with mental health challenges, the Grattan Institute says.
Why the NDIS could drag Australia into a UK-style economic rut
After the productivity roundtable, policymakers should have the guts to introduce price signals and market discipline into the fastest-growing government program.
NDIS workers submit invoices on serviettes in a system gone ‘wild’
A major NDIS plan management provider says the scheme is bogged down by red tape and needs an urgent overhaul of the payments system.
November 2025
Call for NDIS pricing fix to stop overpayments, fraud
Fraud and overpayment risks in the $50 billion scheme can be reduced if a proposed payment system overhaul is implemented, experts say.
I helped review the NDIS and I know how to fix it
The scheme can be fixed, but only if governments stop delaying solutions and confront the pricing rigidities that distort the disability support ecosystem.
Delay of ‘biggest NDIS reforms ever’ costing budget $1.1b
Another round of consultation and funding fights between governments have again stalled efforts to make Australia’s disability insurance scheme more sustainable.
Thousands still flocking to NDIS as costs soar
Almost 14,000 children joined the scheme between July and September this year, more than 66 per cent of total new participants.
How Australia’s fastest-growing new company started with a phone call on a tractor
Former Young Rich Lister, Mark Woodland’s new business Kismet Healthcare has topped the Fast Starters List with compound annual growth of 4630 per cent.
Labor doubles NDIS workforce to 10,000, driving public service blowout
The government’s 38,000 public service hiring spree has led to an explosion of staff with just months of experience in the sector.
‘Historical’ claims left this business with $850k workers’ comp bill
As the NSW Coalition and Labor reach an impasse on workers’ compensation reforms, disability service providers face premium hikes.
October 2025
Junk AI reports harming NDIS users: disability groups
Disability organisations say the use of artificial intelligence is undermining the integrity of the NDIS process and people’s claims.
Fake academic reference reveals AI use in claim for $1.6m from NDIS
The report asked for increased funding for a client but was created with the help of artificial intelligence and cited academic references that did not exist.
