Labor’s multi-billion-$$$ NDIS fraud exposed by Labor’s Health Minister Mark Butler
The Labor Party and the Liberal Party / National Party coalition have overseen tens of billions of dollars being stolen from the NDIS, and we know it continues today, with some frank admissions by the Health Minister Mark Butler which raises the question of what the Labor Party have been doing since they came to power in 2022.
Federal MP Mark Butler, who is the Minister for Health and Ageing and Minister for Disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), gave interviews in August 2025 which are very telling and most media, if not all, failed to pick up on Butler’s key admissions.
Let’s have a look at what Butler said in August 2025 and then look at some of my previous reporting on NDIS fraud and you quickly realise that the NDIS is a massive slush fund for fraudsters that has never been reined in by anyone.
On the 20th of August 2025 Mark Butler was interviewed on the ABC’s 7:30 reports and was asked by the host:
SARAH FERGUSON: I just want to come back to the very difficult issue of fraud in the NDIS. The stories have obviously been, frankly, repulsive, about people taking advantage of this generous system. Are you winning the battle with those shonks and fraudsters taking advantage of the NDIS?
MARK BUTLER: We had to start from scratch. The National Audit Office said before 2024, so the scheme had been running for over a decade, there was effectively no real control on fraud and non-compliance within the NDIS. So, we’ve had to build it up from scratch. Bill Shorten, to his credit, started that work, and already we’ve had hundreds of investigations, search warrants and we are starting to crack down. But we’ve got 260,000 service providers in this scheme, only 16,000 of whom are registered. We’ve precious little line of sight about who they are, what they’re doing, what their qualifications are. We need more work on fraud, and we’ve committed to that again today. But we also, frankly, need a more robust system of provider registration. The sort of which you see in aged care, in veterans’ care, in the health system, and frankly, should exist in the NDIS as well. (Click here to read more)
The key part is “The National Audit Office said before 2024” “there was effectively no real control on fraud and non-compliance within the NDIS”.
So, why did it take the Labor Party from when they won the election in May 2022 until 2024 to do anything about “control on fraud and non-compliance”?
It had to be a deliberate decision by the Labor Party to ignore the a fraud at the NDIS, from May 2022 until 2024, given everyone knew about it for years.
On the 21st of August 2025 Mark Butler was interviewed on the ABC’s Breakfast show and was asked by the host:
BRIDGET BRENNAN: And do you think you’ll be able to continue to crack down on fraud? I mean a lot of the focus on waste in the NDIS seems to stigmatise families who are trying to get onto the system, when in fact there are so many dodgy providers still out there, Minister.
MARK BUTLER: Absolutely. The problem with fraud and integrity is not a problem with participants. It’s a problem with dodgy providers, people who’ve come to a system that doesn’t have enough discipline and integrity and realised it’s a field day for rip-off merchants. And we have to do better than that. I said yesterday that 15 out of every 16 NDIS providers are unregistered. We have no sense of who they are, what their qualifications are. There’s not enough evidence to support some of the services that are being provided. These sorts of systems of discipline and integrity are common in the health system, in aged care, in veterans care, and they have to be introduced to the NDIS to ensure that participants get the full value for money, but also taxpayers have confidence that this large investment into a scheme that has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people with disability, has integrity, has discipline. (Click here to read more)
In the below video Mark Butler says 1 in 6 grade 2 boys are on the NDIS and in some parts of the country it is 1 in 4 grade 2 boys are on the NDIS.
I wonder if all the parents know their sons are on the NDIS? It sounds like the NDIS is being rorted by fraudsters right across the country.
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