The federal government paid private law firms more than $60m in the last financial year to fight NDIS participants appealing decisions about their care packages. 

This is a 60% increase from the year before, as revealed by The Guardian Australia last week in figures released under freedom of information. 

 

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First aired on The Wire, Monday 29 September 2025