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decades.” [Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&CMP=emailbutton) Butler announced [a dramatic overhaul of the NDIS](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/22/ndis-changes-reforms-cuts-national-disability-insurance-scheme-explained) on Wednesday, including plans to reduce the annual growth rate to just
decade to prevent its budget soaring past the $100bn-a-year mark by the mid-2030s. The budget papers show the plan to reduce the NDIS’s growth is by far [the budget’s single
projects. Experts have said major spending outside the usual budget process is problematic, not least because it has the potential to hide the cost of government programs. Amid a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape, Labor