"NDIS ‘failure’ began at Gillard, says Labor star"
Below are some quotes from a labor candidate, it outlines that Gilliard used a fed / state hybrid model to blunt the powers of a Federal Gov, a conservative Gov.
“If you think I’m about to blame the Morrison government, you’d be wrong.
“Morrison is clearly personally committed to the NDIS and has put a series of competent and well-meaning ministers in charge of it with a brief to make it work.
”Dr Charlton said the problem was that the National Disability Insurance Agency sets its own budget without serious government oversight and
“spends more money than the army, and operates with an extraordinary level of independence from the elected government and responsible minister.”
’“How did we arrive at this public governance failure?
“The answer goes right back to the foundation of the NDIS.
“The Gillard Labor government created the NDIS in 2013 in the lead-up to an election it expected to lose.
“Labor worried that the incoming Liberals, led by Tony Abbott, would try to cut it back.
“So instead of the normal practice of creating an agency within a department reporting to a federal minister, Labor created a hybrid institution which reported through a board to both the Commonwealth and the states.
“Gillard was hoping state Labor governments would be a bulwark against future attempts to ransack the scheme.
“But like Victor Frankenstein’s unorthodox creation, the NDIA board has slipped control of its masters.
“This design flaw is becoming one of the most serious governance failures in Australian politics.”
