The coalition has marked the potential cuts for the national disability insurance scheme, since it bets its electoral campaign on the reduction of public sector workers for at least 36,000 jobs and reducing government spending.
On Sunday, the spokeswoman for finance of the coalition, Jane Hume, said she believed that the growth of the expense in goods and services should not exceed GDP growth, currently at 1.3 percent, and looked at the NDI as a program that has remained “without control.”
“We believe it can be done more,” he said.
“We hope that when the Labor will be opponents, they will work with us to try to reign in … those fugitive programs that have been uncontrolled under this government.”
According to the most recent treasury figures, Australia Commonwealth expense is measured by 26.6 percent to GDP, and this figure is expected to remain consistent when the work does not give the fourth budget on Tuesday.
The comments of Senator Hume follow a bipartisan impulse to approve high -range reforms to stop the expanding scheme in 2024, that the work at that time said it would reduce spending by $ 14 billion for four years.
Jim Chalmers said the proposed cuts would severely affect the 692,000 participants in the scheme.
The treasurer said it was proof that the coalition had “secret plans for cuts.”
“That means huge cuts to the NDIS, and that would send a chill through the backbone of many people who trust the program now that we are too late in the parliamentary term so that these characters continue to invent as they advance,” he told Sky.
“Now, if Jane Ham says she wants the growth in NDIS spending to be between two and three percent instead of eight percent, then they need to clarify what that means for Australians with disabilities.”
Senator Hume also reiterated coalition plans to reduce public service jobs, which believed that it could be returned to the Covid era numbers just before former Prime Minister Scott Morrison lost the government in 2022.
“We believe that we can take the number of public servants where it was at the end of Covid. That was at the beginning of this Labor Government when the public sector began to expand.”
She said that despite this increase in workers, efficiency within the sector was not improving.
Senator Hume also reiterated the cuts would not be made to first -line services.
“Let’s be realistic, the services have not improved, but the cost and size of the public service have expanded and swollen exponentially.”
The treasurer of the shadow, Angus Taylor, said they would make reductions to the “back office areas”, and said that he believed that Tuesday’s budget would reveal more increases in public service work.
“What we have been clear about is that we want to return to where we were when we were last in the government. That should not be in frontline services areas. It should be in the areas of the background office,” he told ABC.
“The public service has not been able to deliver the results we want to see in areas such as health. We need a productive and effective public service and we have some incredible people in our public service. But a larger team is not always a better team.”
