Health Minister Mark Butler is not usually prone to bouts of public emotion. But he came close to erupting on the ABC’s Insiders program last Sunday when asked about that latest lame attempt by the states to avoid helping fix the runaway National Disability Insurance Scheme.It has been almost three years since the states first agreed, in return for enormous bribes in the way of extra hospital funding and GST top-up payments, to help alleviate the burden on the $52-billion-a-year NDIS by taking back responsibility for treating kids and others with mild developmental disorders.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Childcare cannot become the next NDIS. But the signs are worrying.
Just as the government tries to rein in the NDIS, childcare is shaping up as a new budget money pit.
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