After watching NDIA co-John Dardo earnestly weave and duck his way around questions from Senators - and Henry Pike and Jordon Steele John. I thought their questions were very good - it became very apparent that Mr Dardo is hellbent on pushing the digital payment, blockchain and data matching agenda.
I am not sure if media are too unskilled to comprehend the verbal parkour that Mr Dardo employs during inquiries - as well as, in my opinion, flat out misinformation - but gosh, it would be nice if he offered some context and perspective from time to time out of sheer fairness.
When Dardo says 'integrity leakage', he is not talking about his careful choice of facts. He's using a term that people like Rick Morton have previously pushed back on, because most media has chosen to interpret it as 'rabid crime wave carried out by Lamborghini driving brown men from Bankstown'.
Integrity leakages are anything from the massive screwups that regularly happen at the hands of government agencies, including the one Dardo previously worked at, payment errors, a slew of issues that include everything except the category that Dardo, Butler and others are talking about when they say things like 'shonks and crooks' to cut essential supports to disabled people.
When you look at the data below, you will see where the NDIA sits on that table. Right down the bottom of the food chain, only above Medicare. And Medicare has far, far more actual fraud than the NDIA in terms of convictions, which are well below 30 cases.
How much actual crime is involved for Mark Butler MP, Richard Marles, Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese to decide to sell us down the river?
Well, it's $35 million.
This is nothing to do with fraud. It just made a convenient sales point for them to use - this one was concocted by a mob in Victoria called Redbridge, who do behavioural economics style modeling to check selling points - https://lnkd.in/gwcJJtV3 and you can read about all that here.
Why did they choose to cut the NDIS, then? It has a lot to do with a lady named Kathryn Campbell and the phrase 'One to rule them all.' You know, that lady from the #Robodebt Royal Commission, who then worked on AUKUS.
And, of course, John Dardo. Under Dardo’s digital leadership, the ATO faced serious criticism over its security and digital identity systems, including reports that it stored taxpayer passwords in plaintext, one of the most basic and dangerous failures in cybersecurity. The same leadership associated with major digital failures, weak security architecture, and failed identity systems is now being trusted to oversee automated compliance tools and predictive systems that could surveille the spending and behaviour of disabled Australians.
The only relevant thing now is to work out whether the Men in Charge will come to their senses rather than lose their own election in two years - because they will - and #ProtectOurNDIS. #KeepThePromise #Auspol