Mark Butler’s National Press Club speech set to reveal reforms to $50b scheme

Mark Butler insisted that despite sweeping cuts, “choice and control” remains the core philosophy of the NDIS.

“But what I’m announcing today is moving away from the ‘let it go’ market that has built up, I think, over the last 10 years, where there’s very little oversight or visibility into the quality and qualifications of providers,” the health minister said. he said.

Butler said providers must meet performance standards and demonstrate their compliance.

“Then from this panel, yes, people can choose,” he said.

“We won’t be saying to individual participants ‘you need to deal with this provider’. There will be a panel. There will still be choice and control, but it won’t be a free-for-all market that has developed over the last 10 years and serves no one’s interests.”