Minister Says Sex Offenders Only a ‘Tiny’ Segment of NDIS Recipients

Bill Shorten, the minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), has defended the agency’s funding despite the revelation that the scheme has spent hundreds of thousands on high-risk sex offenders. Speaking on April 8, Mr. Shorten argued the government had an obligation to provide disability support for people in need, including “a very tiny group” of people who “have served time in jail.” “There are some people, when they come out of jail, we have an obligation to provide disability supports for,” he told reporters at Hearing Australia Belconnen. “I think the vast majority of people on the Scheme are not sex offenders.”...