PoliticsControversial NDIS bill faces ‘substantial’ amendments after Labor-Coalition deal

Australia’s controversial NDIS bill will be substantially amended after Labor and the Coalition reached a deal to secure its passage. The government will introduce 63 amendments, including a pathway for people with high support needs to seek more funding, but David Pocock and disability advocates say a broad power to cut funding remains an indiscriminate threat to hundreds of thousands of participants.

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