1 in 3 Australian Jobs in Past Year Created by Taxpayer-Funded NDIS

Economists at investment bank Jarden said NDIS’s cost blowouts were the main driver of job growth in the past 12 months.

A man wearing a shawl over his head walks into a Centrelink, Medicare, NDIS office in Albany, Western Australia, on Sept. 26, 2023. Susan Mortimer/The Epoch Times

New research has found that the taxpayer-funded National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was the main driver of employment in the Australian economy in the past year, creating approximately one-third of the new jobs.

This comes as the federal Labor government is struggling to contain the growth of NDIS, which is expanding by over 14 percent each year.