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Fraudsters serve time for NDIS rorts · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm christinaming it with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Seventeen fraudsters who routed the multi
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  Speaker 1: billion dollar National Disability Insurance Scheme have spent a collective
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  Speaker 1: sixty years in jail since twenty twenty two. That's according
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  Speaker 1: to new figures released by the government on Tuesday. A
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  Speaker 1: task force launched four years ago to combat fraud in
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  Speaker 1: the scheme has received almost ninety thousand tips about allegedly
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  Speaker 1: fraudulent behavior and has executed dozens of search warrants on
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  Speaker 1: dodgy NDIS providers. The task force says it seesed luxury
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  Speaker 1: items like cars and gold coins during the execution of
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  Speaker 1: search warrants, and more than three point five million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in illegally obtained funds have been returned to the NDIS
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  Speaker 1: why so Worlds. The Labour government used the data in
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  Speaker 1: Parliament to urge the passage of its latest NDIS Bill,
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  Speaker 1: which aims to dramatically cut the ballooning cost of the scheme.
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  Speaker 1: Labour wanted the reforms to pass in this sitting period,
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  Speaker 1: but it's pushed that timeline out while it negotiates with
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  Speaker 1: the Coalition and the Greens Labour MP Josh Burns has
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  Speaker 1: called for vilification of Jewish people to be criminalized. That's
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  Speaker 1: after a campaign of online abuse culminated in an arson
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  Speaker 1: attack on his Melbourne electorate office.
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  Speaker 2: I want people to be able to express themselves, to
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  Speaker 2: criticize government policy, to have a robust democracy and debate.
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  Speaker 2: But unfortunately where that descends and disintegrates into abuse and
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  Speaker 2: vilification is when people leave the discussion around policy and
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  Speaker 2: start making attributes to a particular individual based on their race, religion, gender, ethnicity.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that we want people to participate freely
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  Speaker 2: in democracy, but we also want them to be shielded
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  Speaker 2: from vilification when doing so.
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  Speaker 1: Burns is the first member of the Albanese government to
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  Speaker 1: appear before the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion,
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  Speaker 1: which entered its third block of public hearings on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: The Royal Commission will hear what role, if any, social
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  Speaker 1: media has played in fueling Australia's antisemitism crisis. Treasurer Jim
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  Speaker 1: Chalmers has left the door open to reforms that could
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  Speaker 1: see miners paid superannuation by some of Australia's biggest companies.
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  Speaker 1: About half a million teenagers who work fewer than thirty
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  Speaker 1: hours per week aren't currently entitled to super after Labour
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  Speaker 1: reintroduced an exclusion for workers under the age of eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: But the Greens will move a disallowance motion in the
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  Speaker 1: Senate on Tuesday night to stop the Treasurer from enacting
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  Speaker 1: the exemption, and Chalmers says he's up for the discussion.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we didn't need the Green's political party to tell
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  Speaker 3: us that this was an important issue. As it turns out,
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  Speaker 3: I met with a delegation of young workers just last
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  Speaker 3: week talking about this. We're always looking for ways to
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  Speaker 3: strengthen the superannuation system.
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  Speaker 1: thing in the morning.