spending by govt can be useful or even necessary. the Libs destroyed what they could from Abbot's 2/3 term (why was he sacked by the Party Room?) and Morrison's 4 years. and they wasted enormous amounts of money replacing public servants they had sacked and some obscure funds they established for eh purpose of pork barrelling.
the Labs repaired the budget and actually achieved 2 surpluses.
I get the point of NDIS. its enormous but its replaced the enormous cost of State management of disability services which were woefully inadequate.
NDIS is the approx equivalent of giving the S&Ts a 5% increase in the GST.
and for Aboriginal matters, we may have seen a significant rationalisation of funding had we backed in the Voice.
