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‘We’re coming after those other seats’: Pauline Hanson jubilant as One Nation wins Farrer byelection

David Farley wins One Nation’s first lower house seat after Coalition vote collapses and Angus Taylor says Liberals will take ‘hard lessons’ from result

Pauline Hanson says One Nation is coming after Coalition and Labor seats around Australia, declaring her supporters want to “take the country back” after winning an emphatic victory in Saturday’s Farrer byelection.

The rightwing populist party won its first ever lower house seat at an election, with candidate David Farley easily seeing off the independent Michelle Milthorpe, amid a collapsing Coalition vote in the seat previously held by the former opposition leader Sussan Ley.

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At least 160,000 to be cut from NDIS amid concerns vulnerable people will be left without care

Announcing a major overhaul of the scheme, health minister Mark Butler said it was costing ‘too much and is growing too fast’

At least 160,000 people are expected to be removed from the national disability insurance scheme by 2030, as the Albanese government looks to claw back savings by changing who can access the scheme.

The health minister, Mark Butler, unveiled a massive overhaul of the $50bn scheme on Wednesday, announcing the growth rate will be brought down to just 2% every year until 2030 in an effort to curb annual plan inflation and produce billions in savings.

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© Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

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Labor to tighten child NDIS eligibility to curb spending as Queensland MP warns change is ‘failing kids’

Health minister faces backlash from states as he announces major changes to scheme ahead of May budget

National disability insurance scheme service providers will be required to undergo mandatory character checks and eligibility rules will be tightened further for children under 18, as Labor moves to curb growth in the $50bn program.

But the health minister, Mark Butler, faces a backlash from state counterparts as he announces major changes on Wednesday, with Queensland accusing federal Labor of walking away from responsibilities to families dependent on long-term care.

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