Whilst the concept of the NDIS might be fine as far as it goes, I very much doubt that the costs of operating the scheme have been properly thought out. Its obvious that only a miracle will save the Federal ALP in September, nevertheless the clowns are pulling out all stops to gain support & as with most projects with the ALP stamp, the numbers don't add up. There would need to be thousands of additional public servants recruited to administer the thing, including a fair number of the horribly overpaid & underworked fatcat variety. These turkeys are wont to take long & expensive lunches and to run around the world with requisite retinue of gofers ... all paid out of the public purse. Ultimately I can forsee this event costing several times what was glibly predicted & at a time when we are supposedly already in financial poo. Just like charities which ostensibly exist to improve the lot of some unfortunates but which in reality serve mainly to enrich a few parasitic opportunists, the NDIS will employ an army of largely unproductive leeches, will consume vast quantities of money in its administration, and do little or nothing for those its supposed to support.

Quote - "I can foresee this event costing several times what was glibly predicted"

I would not be surprised if it was a deliberate Government tactic to quote a low price for large projects so as to make the taxpayers think it was okay BUT it is usual fact that with the passage of time nearly all these big projects are at least double or triple the original cost.

If the ran a referendum on it costing $3 Billion most taxpayers would probable say yes but if the said it was going to cost $9 it would probably be a resounding No.

Disability is like the refugee boats you really can not predict with any certainty what will happen in the future.

1 simple scenario that would blow the budget was the thalidomide chemical or asbestos, it could be as easy as Chemically modified food causing birth defects in the future.

Once it is voted in it is a probably burden forever.

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If the Government ran a referendum on it costing $3 Billion most taxpayers would probable say yes but if the Government said it was going to cost $9 Billion it would probably be a resounding No.

"If the Government ran a referendum on it costing $3 Billion most taxpayers would probable say yes but if the Government said it was going to cost $9 Billion it would probably be a resounding No."

Well there's no way of knowing what "most taxpayers" would say yes to, is there?

All we really know about tax is that people don't agree to pay it because if they did, there'd be no need for tax, would there? The tax laws could be abolished, and all the people would just send in a cheque to Consolidated Revenue for the same amount of money they used to pay, wouldn't they?

But even if they would probably say yes to any given amount, that doesn't get around the inherent problem that people can and do use the political process to force others to pay under compulsion, for what they themselves are unwilling to pay voluntarily.

The best way to fund the NDIS is to pass a special Act of Parliament taxing all Labor voters, and anyone else who advocates the scheme; and no-one else. Remember these are the same people who tell us that there are no higher values than NDIS - when they're not telling us that there are no higher values than climate change, foreign wars, handouts to big banks and corporations, handouts to unions, and anything else they say they support but aren't actually willing to pay for themselves.

Who needs it? I get 600 download with copper from Telstra. The system will be obsolete by the time it is finished. Everything will be wire LESS
The damn thing gets to your footpath and then your up for thousands more to get it connected and more to use it.
Who needs it other than that Labor rat Kaiser'

chrisgaff1000 - You have confused the NDIS with NBN this is not the national broadband network.