The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funds the supports people with disability need to live everyday life.

It pays for help to get out of bed.
To shower safely.
To eat.
To work.
To be part of our communities.

This is not money in our pockets. NDIS funding pays for reasonable and necessary supports that make ordinary life possible — support workers, therapy, assistive technology, home modifications, and help with daily tasks like cooking, mobility and personal care. For some people, it also pays for the support they need to stay alive, such as someone there to reconnect a ventilator.

Right now, the Australian Government is considering reducing the growth of the NDIS. We are being told this is about sustainability. But sustainability cannot come at the cost of the scheme working for the people it was built for. When growth is reduced by limiting eligibility, capping plans, or cutting supports, people with disability go without what they need to live safely, fully and even exist at all. 

These are cuts we cannot afford.

We are already seeing the consequences of previous growth reductions:

• People denied essential supports.
• Increased hospitalisations and crisis situations.
• People losing independence, safety and connection.
• Preventable harm, injury and deaths.

The NDIS is not just a cost. It is essential social infrastructure.

It allows people with disability to:

• Work and contribute to the economy
• Stay out of hospital and aged care
• Live independently and safely
• Be part of families and communities 

It also benefits Australians:

• For every $1 invested, the NDIS returns $2.25 to the economy.
• Participants report a 42% improvement in life satisfaction.
• Thousands fewer young people are now living in aged care.

The NDIS was always going to grow. It is growing because more people are finally getting access to the supports they were denied for decades. It is growing because states and territories gutted or reduced other disability supports when the scheme began.

Cutting NDIS growth does not remove the need. It shifts the cost onto families, hospitals and crisis systems, where the costs are higher and often cannot be absorbed.

We call on the Australian Government and every Member of Parliament to:

• Protect access to reasonable and necessary supports.
• Rule out cuts to eligibility and plan funding.
• Reject blanket caps that ignore individual need.
• Commit to genuine co-design with people with disability.
• Focus reform on fixing system inefficiencies, not cutting supports.

Our call is reasonable. It is necessary. It is for the ordinary lives the NDIS makes possible.

Help stop the NDIS cuts:

• Email your MP and tell them what the NDIS funds in your life.
• Share your story and show what the NDIS makes possible in your life.
• Sign the petition and help show the scale of support for the NDIS.