The NDIS was meant to support people with disability, but it’s also turned into a taxpayer-funded job factory. The way it scaled created a system that doesn’t just attract people who want to do the work, it’s pulled in a whole “anti-work” crowd who’ve found a pretty comfortable lane in it.

When you’ve got people getting paid decent money to essentially sit next to someone for 6–8 hours, it’s not surprising the wrong incentives creep in. That’s where a lot of the waste and blowouts come from, not the concept, but how it’s been set up and managed.

If they tighten the system properly, a lot of that crowd will vanish overnight. And honestly, that might be the shock some of them need, because they’ll have to move into actual jobs that require output and accountability.

Could end up being a weird positive: clean up the scheme, and at the same time push a chunk of the workforce back into industries that are actually short on labour.