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19/01/2026

From today, two new mandatory standards commence that aim to reduce the risk of death and injury from products that babies do or may fall asleep in.

If you're a supplier, you must now comply with the mandatory standards' requirements.

Find out more about your obligations under the new standards:
https://www.productsafety.gov.au/business/search-mandatory-standards/infant-sleep-products-mandatory-standards

17/01/2026

05/12/2025

Couldn’t have said it better ourselves so sharing a fello allied health professional’s post!

Australia is pumping infinite money into supply-constrained markets such as disability and childcare, while the government also mandates and helps fund hefty wage increases in these sectors.

24/11/2025

23/07/2025

15% of children in the NDIS is not a failure.

It says: “We can see you. We can support you. We won’t fail another generation the way we did in the past.”

It says: “We are a country that takes the needs of children seriously.”

20% of the population are Disabled. Yes, that much, that high, that many. Ask the ABS if you don't believe us.
Let’s look at the numbers:

💡The NDIS returns $2.25 for every $1 invested (Melbourne Institute & Per Capita, 2023)

💡It’s created over 500,000 jobs

💡Fraud is only 0.04% of spending annually

💡The fraud taskforce cost five times more than the fraud it detected

AN OPEN LETTER TO Barnaby Joyce AND Garth Hamilton MP

✉️

Dear Garth and Barnaby,

20% of the population are Disabled. Yes, that much, that high, that many. Ask the ABS if you don't believe us.

That’s not a debate — it’s a fact.

Pretending Disabled people - in this case, boys - don’t exist won’t solve anything. And under international law, Australia has binding obligations to listen to Disabled People's Representative Organisations (DPROs) and incorporate our advice into law and policy.

Let’s be clear: none of us in DPROs support the direction you’re taking.

Yes — more Australians, including children, are being identified as Disabled than 15 or 20 years ago.
That doesn’t mean we’re faking. It doesn’t mean we’re broken.

It means we’ve improved at recognising disability early and intervening to support people. That is progress — and we should be proud of it.

We should be investing in Disabled children so they can grow, learn, and participate equally in community life.

When we invest early, we prevent harm later.
And harm from a lack of early supports always costs more — in lives, in hospitals, in family breakdowns, in lost potential.

15% of children in the NDIS is not a failure.

It says: “We can see you. We can support you. We won’t fail another generation the way we did in the past.”

It says: “We are a country that takes the needs of children seriously.”

Let’s get to the real crisis

Providers are not the problem, as people in your comments have stated. This is total BS.

That narrative — pushed by both Labor and the Coalition — is political spin to justify austerity.

Here’s what’s actually happening in the NDIA right now:

💔 Most small to medium allied health providers have been operating at a loss for years. The most successful are making less than 3 percent profit. The ALP created the market, and now it is blaming providers for the market it created - but actually, they hold all the cards.

💔 The pricing caps imposed by the NDIA have now made it impossible for many to stay afloat.

💔 Some small businesses are reporting deficits of over $75,000.

💔 Lawyers are now advising providers to shut down to avoid insolvency risk.

💔 Those that remain are being bought out by large corporate players, consolidating the market and driving down quality.

People have asked - why do YOU care? Why do participants give a crap about providers?

We care because this is how you kill competition. This is how you destroy diversity in service delivery. This is how you demolish choice and control in the current system, and create a CAPTIVE market. This is a return to what we escaped.

That’s why we — alongside others — have reported the NDIA to the ACCC for market distortion.

The NDIS is not broken — it’s being sabotaged.

Let’s look at the numbers:

💡The NDIS returns $2.25 for every $1 invested (Melbourne Institute & Per Capita, 2023)

💡It’s created over 500,000 jobs

💡Fraud is only 0.04% of spending annually

💡The fraud taskforce cost five times more than the fraud it detected

Wow, right?

All this destruction of plans, attacking Disabled people, their families, and small providers — just so the NDIS could be raided by the ALP in partnership with the Liberals and Nationals, to pay for AUKUS.

Grossness factor 1 billion, fam.

Meanwhile:

🫠 Kids can’t get therapy or go to school

🫩 Disabled people are dying in their homes

😬 Communities are being gutted

🙃 Small, values-driven providers are collapsing or being swallowed by corporates.

Yuck.

For our friends and allies:

You know as well as us that -

The problem IS NOT participants.
The problem IS NOT providers.
The problem IS the Agency. The problem IS government.

The problem IS the corporates and private interests who run this country behind the scenes.

The problem IS the fact that Australian politics is pay-for-play, and what you see printed in Murdoch media is largely bought and sold by rich and powerful families with their own agendas.

*hits play on Dirty Deals Done Dirt Cheap by ACCA DACCA*

Folks who know nothing about living on the breadline - like us.

Folks who know zero about needing the social safety net to survive.

Fight the real power and don't let them distract you, friends.

Stop the cuts.
Listen to DPROs.

And to Barnaby and Garth - Do your job, as outlined under International Law.

07/07/2025

Please share as a provider, participant or caregiver

07/07/2025

If you have been impacted by cuts to the NDIS as a participant, or a provider, or a caregiver of a participant, even just a little bit, please fill out the Harm tracker.
This is going to be a strong tool in tracking problems and advocating for an actI ally fairer NDIS.
Eg. Is your Allied Health no longer able to visit you in the location that is best for you?
Eg. Are you having to take more time off work so that you can take your child to sessions at a clinic because they are no longer visiting?
Eg. Are you a provider who has had to delay recruiting or reduce your FTE by making Allied Health subcontractors or through redundancy? Do you know when Allied Health practice that has had to close? Do you know Allied Health has had to restructure and move from four days of community visits to Only One and the rest being in a clinic?
There are so many different ways that impact occurs and it can be tracked here in a powerful tool for advocacy

NDIS Cuts Are Hurting People. Now, We’re Tracking the Harm.

📍The Nobody Worse Off Coalition has today launched the Harm Tracker — a national, independent tool to expose the real impact of NDIS cuts.

Co-designed and led by Disabled people, with support from allied health professionals, the Harm Tracker collects stories and data from across Australia. It documents what support has been lost, the harm that follows, and who is affected. It will also capture and display the thinning of markets as service loss rapidly grows.

We’re using this evidence to create clear, accessible reports, maps and graphs. Because the harm is real, and it must be made visible.

The Harm Tracker is a tool for truth-telling. It is also a call to action.

NDIS decisions are being made behind closed doors, without real co-design and with little accountability to the community. This is how we open them again.

Share it, use it, email it, text it. Get it into the hands of everyone you can.

The Harm Tracker is now live. You can find the link in the comments below.

This work is grounded in Australia’s legal and moral responsibilities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The current direction of the NDIS is not aligned with that commitment. These cuts are not co-designed, not safe, and not just.

Co-designed by Disabled people. Backed by a national coalition. Built to expose harm.

Remember: it ain't over until the crips say it's over.

[Image Description: A screenshot of a website which reads "MAKE HARM VISIBLE
WHAT IS THE HARM TRACKER?
The Harm Tracker is a new national tool to report how NDIS cuts are hurting people. It is an independent, grassroots, public interest project. It is co-designed with Disabled people, led by Disabled people and created in partnership with Allied Health workers.

If you or someone you support has lost services, had harmful changes to your plan, or been left without the help you need – the Harm Tracker is your place to speak up.

We collect real stories from people all over Australia to show what’s really happening. Your voice helps expose the impact of these cuts and push for change. We’ll use clear visual tools like Flourish to turn this data into maps, graphs, and reports that everyone can understand." The colour palette of the website is pink, green and white.]

29/06/2025

An organised action for every allied health & participant to take Monday 30th June 2025
1. call your MP with this script (5 mins)
2. follow up email your MP (1 min) enter your postcode here to find their contact Senators & Members Search Results – Parliament of Australia and copy in the NDIS minister jennifer.mcallister@aph.gov.au
3. post to personal and professional social media along with the petition link. Image descriptions are below.
4. email the NDIS the same Provider.support@ndis.gov.au and NDIS CEO rebecca.falkingham@ndis.gov.au
5. sign & share the petition https://www.change.org/p/stand-up-for-disability-support-stop-the-ndis-cuts
6. use these images to fact check online in the comments sections
7. share widely, encourage your fellow Participants, colleagues, friends and family to flood the Ministers and social media to fact check their lies, stop the cuts and fix the freeze.

Background: �Everyone has done an excellent job contacting their ministers, telling their stories, and making it clear how these cuts will hurt NDIS Participants who value and need allied health supports.
But the NDIS cuts to allied health start tomorrow 1st July. It’s clear the Labor Government and the NDIA don’t care.
They say these cuts make the NDIS fairer. We know that’s not true for Participants.
But they are justifying these cuts with lies, mistakes, inaccurate data…
And they know it’s wrong, and they’re doing it anyway.
That doesn’t sound fair. It’s not a good look.
Let’s call out their repeated lies.
Imagine if they all heard from us today with the same clear message!
Stop the cuts, fix the freeze.
�In comments:�1. script for MP phone call
2. email to copy paste
3. image descriptions of slides for social media

07/03/2024

Are you looking for a change?We’re looking for physios who love their work, seeing kids and families thrive, and seeing goals through to participation. Early...

11/01/2024

We've had a few cancellations for our popular sports and recreation intensives!
January 15-19th and January 22nd - 26th
Both weeks give you 5 days, 1 hour session per day

We are doing mornings to work on bike riding, ball skills, mobility, playground skills, getting ready to join a sporting team... you name it!

And afternoons at our Moonee Ponds pool for aquatic physio. We have the pool to ourselves (maximum 3 physios and 3 Splash Kids) and all the great equipment. Work on swim safer skills, coping with water on your face or head to make swimming / showering / washing hair easier, and we can work on gross motor skills and goals in the water too.

If you're interested in a place please call us on (03) 44222970 and please leave a message if we're on the phone to someone else!

Thanks, we look forward to seeing you soon!

We help children and young people learn skills to participate in sport and recreation activities. Physiotherapy intensive. Melbourne. NDIS.

07/11/2023

Hello our automated reminder SMS and email are going out as usual today despite the Optus outage.
However if you use Optus for your mobile or internet you may not be receiving messages.
Sessions are going ahead as planned for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Hopefully Optus will be back online ASAP! Thanks