There is a direct correlation between how worried politicians are about a policy announcement and how much time they spend selling it through the media.
Health Minister Mark Butler, who on Wednesday announced a fundamental shake-up of the $50 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), has barely been off camera since revealing his plan at the National Press Club.
At last count, Butler had conducted at least 12 radio and television interviews about the changes, which will remove about 160,000 people from the NDIS by 2030.
Conceding the scheme was unsustainable and had become a honeypot for “shonks, grifters, fraudsters and crooks”, Butler plans to cut annual cost growth from 10% to 2%, before returning it to 5% a year by 2030.
