Labor Pledges to Bolster Staff Numbers at National Disability Service

Labor Pledges to Bolster Staff Numbers at National Disability Service
Bill Shorten at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on March 29, 2022. Martin Ollman/Getty Images
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Australia’s centre-left Labor Party is promising to increase staff numbers at the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and review the operations of the burgeoning scheme which currently services around 500,000 Australians.

Bill Shorten, the shadow minister for the NDIS, announced the party’s six-point-plan to change the program, which has faced issues of waste, delayed service delivery, and cost blowouts.