Joanne Ryan (Lalor, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise with my colleagues today to talk about the NDIS and this government's culpability. It is a truth that Labor builds and the coalition tears down. It is an absolute truth. We see it with Medicare and now we are going to see it with the NDIS. This news is heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking for the families in my electorate who are patiently waiting, watching their friends and relatives in Barwon, in the first rollout—prepared to wait, to be last cab off the rank. They are shattered today to hear that this government cannot be relied on even to deliver on what was supposedly a bipartisan promise. They have failed my community today.

Mr Porter needs to come in here and answer questions today about why he is going to shift the blame to other people. He has got Bruce Bonyhady sacked, the father of the NDIS. I stand here with my colleagues today and I am going to pay tribute to a man called Bill Shorten who built the NDIS. On this side we build things and on that side they tear them down. Again, they are wiping out hope in our community. They kill hope. All they see is money. They never, ever see that they need to care.

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