A plan to shift billions of dollars worth of NDIS spending to the states is snagging on one holdout jurisdiction as a minister also warns criminal gangs have penetrated the scheme.
Queensland is the only state or territory still refusing to take responsibility for autistic and developmentally delayed children with low-to-moderate support needs under the government's new Thriving Kids program.
States have agreed to chip in a combined $4 billion into Thriving Kids over five years, helping prop up Labor's sweeping efforts to curtail what it calls runaway NDIS spending .
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