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David Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

in this case it’s particularly audacious given the pm has shut down critical hospital funding negotiations to pressure states into cooperation with NDIS cuts. the PM is lauding public emergency departments as the great Aus social policy while he is threatening their future, using them as a hostage

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Cat @kelpieunicorns.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I won't be there tomorrow, because this #NDIS has me shut in, shut out & forced to fight for my right to be a fully participating citizen. That fight is continually worsening my disability, while the legal fees are billed to YOU. Kindness isn't weakness, Albo. #HarmCostsMore #StopTheCuts #Auspol

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

hmm, no, it is connected to the NDIA, because if a disabled person uses their NDIS funding incorrectly, because of this getting incorrect advice, that's on the disabled person (debt). there is no prohibition on using these tools, with consequences only for the disabled person

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Shifting the NDIS to the Health portfolio signals a move to a medical model of disability

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Kimista @kimista.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is going to fuck over so many people, and the NDIS is so terrible at notifying the community about changes like this.

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Disabled Down Under @disableddownunder.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Tomorrow we are mourning the NDIS. Our NDIS. The NDIS that was about ending scarcity, giving disabled people normal lives and real supports to be who they are. Join us in Melbourne at the DSC conference to grieve what we have lost. You are not alone. You are not imagining it. Wear black.

Image with a picture of a red stop sign and the words 'Stop the Cuts'. Save our NDIS. Join disabled people and our allies to protest the NDIS Cuts.

We demand:
No one should be worse off. Stop cuts to NDIS money and support. Do no force people into shared supports or institutions. Treat mental health fairly and...
There is an arrow pointing to click on the next image, and a picture of people protesting.

Fund support for our real lives, not just labels. Stop removing children and adults from the NDIS. Real codesign with our community. Harm costs more. Stop the cuts.

Where: NDIS conference, Melbourne Convention Centre, South Wharf. When: 9am - 12 noon Tuesday 20th May. What: Wear black, bring a sign that says 'stop the cuts' or 'the NDIA are harming us.' All caps: We are stronger together.

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NDIA FOI Disclosure log @ndiafoi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

📅1/5/2025 📢 Number of applications for replacement supports exception to section 10; proportion of those accepted/rejected/still pending. 🔓Document created by NDIA providing statistics as per request www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/pol...

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

They're gutting the #NDIS. We’re gathering in black to grieve and demand no one is harmed or left behind. Tuesday 20 May, 9am–12pm Outside Melbourne Convention Centre, South Wharf #StopTheCuts #NDISConference #Auspol

Poster 1

Image description:
A red octagon stop sign with the word “STOP” in white. To the right, in bold red capital letters, it says “THE CUTS!” with the word “CUTS!” underlined with a red paintbrush-style line.
Below this, in bold black text:
And save our NDIS. (red heart emoji)
Join Disabled People and our allies to protest the NDIS Cuts.
A thick red paintbrush-style arrow points to the right at the bottom.

Text:
STOP THE CUTS!
And save our NDIS. ❤️
Join Disabled People and our allies to protest the NDIS Cuts.

Poster 2

Image description:
At the top in bold red capital letters: WE DEMAND:
Below this are four dot points, each with a red circle and black bold text.
A red paintbrush-style arrow points to the right.
At the bottom, a red silhouette of protesters with raised fists and placards.

Text:
WE DEMAND:
• No one should be worse off
• Stop cuts to NDIS money and support
• Do not force people into shared supports or institutions
• Treat mental health fairly and…

Poster 3

Image description:
Continues the list of dot points with red circles and black bold text.
A bold red text statement at the end: HARM COSTS MORE. STOP THE CUTS.
At the bottom, more red silhouettes of people marching and raising placards.

Text:
• Fund supports for our real lives, not just labels
• Stop removing children and adults from the NDIS
• Real co-design with our community.
HARM COSTS MORE.
STOP THE CUTS.

Poster 4

Image description:
Black bold text outlining location, time, and instructions for attendees.
Red bold capital letters at the bottom say WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER.
Along the bottom edge is a red silhouette of people raising fists and flags.

Text:
WHERE: NDIS Conference
Melbourne Convention Centre, South Wharf.
WHEN: 9am – 12 noon, Tuesday May 20.
What: Wear black, bring a sign that says “Stop The Cuts” or “The NDIA are Harming Us.”
WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER.

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Byron Stol @byronstol.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

"Uniting Ballarat snr manager of homelessness Adam Liversage said he was not seeing enough housing in the areas that needed it most" Ararat is abt 60km from me, so quite alarming. I'm stuck in a town & too scared to move closer to NDIS supports b/c of housing crisis www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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Free camping grounds a haven for 'more people than ever' sleeping rough

John Green was an ABC reporter for 10 years and never thought he'd end up living on the streets. A mental health episode led to a decade sleeping rough.

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Well said. It continues in NDIS and with asset management mistakes at Centrelink for pensioners. All government systems are struggling to cover up mistakes. So we know about DOGE. The failed #NACC means nothing has happened to prevent continuation of systemic abuse.

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Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association @scarletalliance.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

We are looking to collect case studies of NDIS participants being denied disability specific sexual supports including therapy, counselling and other kinds of assistance and any impacts of the denial. Head to the survey via surveymonkey.com/r/W7Q6K8J

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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 13/04/2025

Do you claim to speak for the voiceless? If a person is conscious, they are likely able to communicate for themselves in some way It’s great to know where you fit in and q your role in keeping people down rather than actually improving their lot in life phonakins.com/2025/04/11/l...

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Language matters but so do your goals

You know how some people use all the right buzz words but their heart’s not in the right place? Usually in activist spaces they talk the talk and can focus on the hot topics, but move on once…

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Limey @limeylimes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I'm one of the 97% of people with ME unable to access the NDIS. It's mid afternoon, I'm still in bed, haven't had anything to eat or drink yet today. I'm struggling to navigate a concept as simple as breakfast, I have no hope of navigating a bureaucratic systemic designed to demoralise like NDIS.

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Mr Austin had an NDIS plan, but no provider would support him. This isn't a gap, it's a chasm that markets can't solve www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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First Nations man died in prison after waiting years for disability support, inquest told

A coroner is told Indigenous man Clinton Austin waited more than two years for NDIS support prior to being found unresponsive in his jail cell.

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Cat @kelpieunicorns.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My comments in this article are strictly in my personal capacity, but as an NDIA reference group member, the irony of this quote is profound: “According to Shorten, more transparency and co-design were needed to fix the problems.” (in ‘A Better Australia’) @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social #Auspol #NDIS

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Byron Stol @byronstol.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Wow what a great podcast. Really enjoyed hearing Nell Tyler speak about her lived experience of Disability and singing a couple of songs, especially the #NDIS song.

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It is the nicest weather today. Solidarity to the many people being booted off the NDIS right now. Connect with an advocacy agency anfd ask them what the next steps are. You got this <3

Red headed cripple with mask glasses rainbow frog shirt

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Allison @gramyre.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It truly annoys me that a #NDIS self manager cannot upload a spreadsheet of claims - what a waste of my time doing each individual one just because they want us to be managed by some penny pinching bureaucrat and so make it as tedious and time-consuming as they can.

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Why are NDIS delegates not even reading access reports properly/at all when the ART caseload has already blown out? Isn't getting decisions right first-time cheaper than double-handling on the public dollar, or paying lawyers to keep fighting them? #LeakyNDIS 🛟 #Auspol

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Unique Jacky @uniquejacky.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I was checking/working on my #budget and just worked out, in the last 12 months, I have spent 46.06%of my #DisabilitySupportPension on out of pocket expenses related to my #health / #disabilities. The average #Aussie spends 1.9% of their income 😭 @australianlabor.bsky.social @greens.org.au

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Just caught Falkingham's comments at NDIS estimates from last week. She says 28 days for eligibility reassessments has been the process since the inception of the scheme. Their own documents say otherwise. 56 days before decision vs 28 days before decision, arbitrarily changed in October last year.

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vass @vass.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

and she thinks every individual pwd whose reports the ndis is ignoring, and the specialists we're paying to write them, *does* have the time to jump through the ndis's hoops?

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Sue @sooziekapoozie.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

@NDIS why cut my nephew's funding, telling him he's required to look for work when he already has a job? And cannot physically catch public transport? Do better.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Everything is relateddddddd

“They’ve all lost their jobs, so they’re all super stressed. And they’ve been with him for a long time, so they’re all grieving. It’s a shitshow.”
It’s not just this case that keeps me up at night, or the thousands of others every year in which the NDIA makes consequential mistakes or invokes deliberately harmful policies, but the sum total of all the cortisol produced by all those forced to interact with an ineffective or uncaring administration.

It was Helen who first taught me to think critically, although many would argue I have a long way to go.

Her Year 11 and 12 modern history classes at Boonah State High School were a revelation – a rambunctious, meticulous study in deep inquiry that encouraged every student to climb out of themselves.

For a sheltered kid from the country, as I was, these classes represented a kind of permission to examine the world as if you were a part of it, not simply some far-flung observer.

Having witnessed apartheid South Africa firsthand, Helen understood that history was not esoteric, that it crept up on you, as it seems to be doing now.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

My modern history teacher, the NDIS and me. More than two decades (!!) after our final class, the one where she taught us the art of critical thinking, I'm trying to help her against the bureaucratic machine following her husband's death. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/03...

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Seeking justice for my history teacher

The lessons Rick Morton was taught by his Year 11 and 12 modern history teacher stood him in good stead as a journalist seeking justice amid the intricacies of social policy and government bureaucracy...

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

💯 the point of this #NDIS spin. It's a tweaked soundbite Shorten already fed us. "80 pg reports not able to be implemented" = NDIA overruling professionals. "Staff can't read 280 pg reports" = but we spend that time & $ on lawyers. This will conceal unmet support needs. #LeakyNDIS 🛟 #Auspol

Quote from former NDIS Minister Bill Shorten's MYEFO media release on 17 December 2024 reads:

"One of the most important things heard as part of the NDIS Review and in my time as NDIS Minister - has been the need to stop people with disability paying for expensive 80-page reports which are not able to be implemented" Minister Shorten said.

"This new workforce of dedicated support needs assessors will put participants' needs at the centre and improve the NDIS experience for people with disability."

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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Anonymous Sewer Rat 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜🖤🤎 @anonymoussewerrat.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

We all knew this was true and it’s good to finally hear NDIS admit that. Now for the multiple class action lawsuits where disabled people have had funding cuts based on algorithms and gut feelings. #ndis #disability

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Imagine if your cost of living problem was not being able to pee or 💩. #LeakyNDIS 🛟 #Auspol #NDIS

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"What actually happens when Autistic people lose access to support is increased rates of mental illness, burnout, unemployment, and homelessness." Great piece, @heidilapaglia.bsky.social – we can't be throwing people overboard when the Leaky #NDIS Lifeboat is still the only one. #Auspol #LeakyNDIS

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

‘After a lawyer helped resolve their coverage... they were surprised to hear from Medicaid demanding evidence, once again, of Harper’s lifelong disability.’ Human involvement hasn't protected from NDIS harms. AI assistance will just streamline it. #LeakyNDIS 🛟 #Auspol @kevindeliban.bsky.social

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Bec Wrong @queenkunt.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Yes for sure. It annoys me. Our little street all have t-shirts with the Amy Remeikis quote NDIS It's not money we're talking about, it's people.

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BinChicken24 @binchicken24.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

People don't understand that most disabled people in Australia DON'T get any money from the NDIS. Many, particularly those with invisible illness, or chronic illness that causes disability, cannot even access the DSP, if they are unemployed they are in poverty and trying to compete with able bodied.

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Imagine if... 💭 Medibank made you go to bed before 8pm. 🛌 Even on weekends. Australians with disabilities just want a fair go in life without the government micromanaging us and making our worlds smaller than yours. #LeakyNDIS 🛟 #Auspol

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Yet, trying to find out what supposed "evidence" the NDIA "bases" denials of support requests and other NDIS decisions on is like The Neverending Hide and Seek Story. #LeakyNDIS 🛟 #Auspol

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Gives No Spoons @givesnospoons.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

#NDIS How it's going. NDIA: Here's a plan that doesn't cover everything that you need. Me: Ok, I'll work creatively to find cost effective solutions to get the most out of my funds. NDIS changes 2024: You can't have anything that's outside the box! That's cheating. We'll fine you 👮. 1/2

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Beautifully written, revealing look at NDIS music and art therapy via the story of my colleague Kye Halford's cousin. Christian sings to communicate after having a crowbar jammed into his brain by another man while trying to defend a woman holding a baby. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/02...

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When the NDIS turns off the music

After surviving a devastating brain injury, music therapy has given this NDIS client a chance to communicate with the world, but cuts to the scheme could end all that.

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

So, 37 million dollars 💸 fighting to stop disabled people receiving essential supports. And the #NDIS #NDIA lost 76% of cases that went to tribunal. Imagine what that 37 million dollars could have done. #Auspol #Equity

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S|AM Connor @criprights.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The NDIA spent thirty-seven MILLION fighting disabled people & their families in court to stop us getting supports in 2023-2024. In 2019-2021 they apparently lost 76% of cases at the then AAT. So much for that 'waste clock' and demonising the disabled. www.righttoknow.org.au/request/ndia...

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NDIA expenditure on individual law firms for 2023-2024 - a Freedom of Information request to National Disability Insurance Agency

Please provide the following information about all law firms engaged by the NDIA in 2023-2024 for matters to which the NDIA was a Respondent at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT): 1) A list o...

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Leaky Lifeboat #LeakyNDIS 🛟🆘 @leakylifeboat.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Seems like it'll be the only #LeakyNDIS lifeboat in the ocean for a while... Cap'n Rishworth, we could have co-designed more boats by now if Labor listened to PWD over co-designing a deal with the Opposition. If you can't even co-design with the states, it's course-correction time. #Auspol #NDIS

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