Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

Well, under the coalition there was $115 million worth of payments being investigated; now there's $400 million worth of payments being investigated. It's only under Labor that you can read in the Daily Telegraph that we're cracking down on crime gangs in Western Sydney and elsewhere.

There was one other issue of fraud which did come up which we are investigating. It's dodgy contracts within the NDIA which were done under the previous government. The member for Bruce talked about some of that. So we are certainly looking at that. If the Manager of Opposition Business can tell us where Mr John Margerison is, that will be helpful in our inquiries. He was a Queensland LNP fundraiser. But let me reassure the opposition and Australians listening: under Labor we will make sure, and do our very best to ensure, that every dollar gets through to the people for whom the scheme was designed and the shonks can get off our— (Time expired)

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