Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

A good bunch of management is the underpinning of being in a position to provide good social support in the community. You do not have to choose between good social policy and good economic policy; they're two sides of the one coin. You need a good economic policy and a good budget policy so that you can sustain a good social policy, and the NDIS is very good social policy.

I do want to acknowledge that this is one of those areas that has been a cross-party venture, where colleagues across the chamber, both here and in the other place, have been united to see Australians with significant disability get the better deal to which they are entitled. This is a scheme that involves significant resources on behalf of the community, but this is an area where the community says that absolutely the resources are justified, and we will see the NDIS to completion.