{"id":622855,"date":"2026-04-22T05:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622855\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:05:11","slug":"mark-butlers-national-press-club-speech-set-to-reveal-reforms-to-50b-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622855\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Butler\u2019s National Press Club speech set to reveal reforms to $50b scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Butler has insisted \u201cchoice and control\u201d remained the core philosophy of the NDIS, despite sweeping cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I have announced today, though, is a move away from the \u2018let it rip\u2019 market that, I think, has built up over the last 10 years where there\u2019s very little oversight or line of sight about the quality and the qualifications of providers,\u201d the health minster said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Health Minister Mark Butler taking questions at the National Press Club.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/446bdfd2bb480b045a3a5eae7f9ee1af23382792.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Health Minister Mark Butler taking questions at the National Press Club.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>Butler said providers should have to apply and demonstrate their compliance with performance standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen from that panel, yes, people can choose,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to say to individual participants, \u2018you have to deal with this provider\u2019. There will be a panel. There will be still choice and control, but it won\u2019t be this free-for-all market that has developed over the last 10 years and is serving no one\u2019s interest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Butler has insisted \u201cchoice and control\u201d remained the core philosophy of the NDIS, despite sweeping cuts. \u201cWhat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-622855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}