In the latest episode of morally vacuous financial gymnastics performed by the Commonwealth, Health Minister Mark Butler spent 90 minutes at the National Press Club on Wednesday justifying more dramatic cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). He used every bogus excuse under the sun except the obvious truth: the corporate ruling class simply doesn’t value disabled people, viewing them as economically useless, disposable grifters, gaming the system for free haircuts.
Around 160,000 recipients are set to lose access to the NDIS by 2030, with spending forecast to decrease from $70 billion to $55 billion over the same period.
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