https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/national-disability-insurance-ag...

THERE are 94 executives paid a combined $23 million at the troubled National Disability Insurance Agency.

National Disability Insurance Scheme Minister Stuart Robert has defended the largesse, saying the organisation needed “an extraordinary group of executives” to run it.

He yesterday announced a new CEO for the organisation, Martin Hoffman, whom he has previously appointed to a government position.

The NDIA’s previous CEO Robert De Luca, who resigned on the eve of the election, overtook the Prime Minister in salary.

His base salary was $566,000 for the year, above Scott Morrison’s $538,000 at the time, though rose to $587,000 after benefits.

The previous year he was earning $523,000, which was just below the PM’s pay packet.

The total number of executives at the organisation have increase by almost half compared to just last year, when just 66 top executives were employed.

As well as the nine key management personal taking home $420,000 and above, there are 94 executives with pay $111,000 to $574,000.

Staffing numbers within the NDIA increased to 3495 public servants from 2020 staff over the same time.

Mr Robert said there was no danger of the organisation becoming too top heavy or bureaucratic.

“Every organisation needs to have experienced executives. We’re talking about a world-first, national endeavour. It hasn’t been tried at this scale before,” he said.

“We have 500,000 participants, all unique, all individual.

“This is an extraordinary national enterprise and it needs and extraordinary group of executives to run it.”

Mr Robert said the organisation was 80 per cent complete in being set up and the remaining 20 per cent would be finalised in the next 12 months.
Opposition NDIS spokesman Bill Shorten said the head of the NDIA should not be making more than the Prime Minister.

“It is not right for the people at the top of the NDIA corporate ladder to be making themselves richer when so many people with a disability they are meant to serve are struggling to access services or basic equipment under the scheme,” he said.

Mr Hoffman, appointed to be CEO on Thursday, has previously been appointed by Mr Robert in July to head a taskforce to reform the Department of Human Services.

“He’s an impressive individual, a delightful family man, (he has) a real sense of compassion as well as drive,” he said.

Mr Hoffman has previously been Secretary of the NSW Department of Finance and served in numerous public service and private enterprise roles.




well now we know how lucky we are to have this many running the place...


what about the people that desperately need the SERVICES??? last I heard they were not all doing do well.

The disabled used to be looked after buy passionate volunteer organisations and advocates who cared deeply about their plight

Now thanks to gillard and Rudd they are looked after by self-serving empire building public servants

How disgraceful
How mediocre
The last thing any group needs is Canberra looking out for them

aquascoot wrote on Oct 18^th, 2019 at 6:39am:


You are the disgrace you low life self serving ass hole....You had to make this about Julia Gillard (Rudd had little to do with it) instead of placing the blame where it squarely rests....The federal Government has under spent by billions on the NDIS and what has been spent has mostly gone to bureaucrats....I have a family member who has been waiting almost 6 years to get a plan and it is still only just been negotiated with an overworked staff member who admits he is overwhelmed by the complexity of what is required....The Coalition can shove their surplus IMO and deserve the criticism they receive you dickhead!!!

macman wrote on Oct 18^th, 2019 at 7:59am:


They are screwing the disabled to maintain a budget surplus and claim they are great economic managers....The dickhead in the OP highlighted how the NDIS is not working for participants and is top heavy by blaming Labor for not being in Government to deliver the scheme the Coalition have stuffed....No accountability, no integrity and no compassion for those who were promised so much and provided so little....The Coalition and it's pathetic supporters have nothing to be proud of!!!

So when a Coalition Government is in power there is no responsibility or accountability to deliver on policies their predecessor has legislated even though in opposition they supported said legislation....By not keeping to the original scope and vision of the original legislation the Coalition have not delivered what was originally proposed by Labor and must accept responsibility for thier stuff ups....The Coalition could be accused of deliberately sabotaging the scheme because it was a Labor policy and seeing it fail would allow it's dickhead supporters to blame Labor for the Coalitions failure...Ass holes the lot of them!!!

I will most certainly blame labour for this
They started this bureaucratic nightmare
This multi-billion dollar scheme run for the benefit of unscrupulous service providers and empire building public servants
Labour started this nonsense

The disabled we're just pawns in their virtue signalling wet dream

macman wrote on Oct 18^th, 2019 at 6:36am:


Spot on ....

I think the government would have been better off giving one quarter of the amount spent directly to recipients rather than creating an enormous bureaucracy to micromanage how it is spent. The waste is not just at the top. It goes all the way through the system.