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

I want to acknowledge the member for Deakin's inaugural question to me on the NDIS in this term of government. The NDIS is changing lives. I actually think that most members of the House are very committed to seeing the NDIS deliver the outcomes that it was designed to deliver for people with disability. But the NDIS needs to be got back on track.

The member goes to one of the questions about the future of the scheme, which is making sure that every dollar gets through to the participants for whom it's designed. I agree that there are issues in terms of fraud in the scheme. But these issues of fraud did not start yesterday. The reality is that this scheme was initiated by Labor, and then the Liberals came into power and there's no doubt that they increased the size of the scheme. But I would have to mark their stewardship of the scheme as incompetent and naive because they failed to create systems—

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