NDIS Professionals Union - Professionals Australia

03/11/2026

The Major Parties *cough cough* Australian Labor Party Liberal Party of Australia Pauline Hanson's Please Explain *cough cough* are making A LOT of choices.

Choices to defund the NDIS.
Choices to buy nuclear submarines.
Choices to give gas corporations and mining companies subsidies.
Choices to collect more revenue from HECS debt, than billion dollar corporations.

What they need to remember is that we also have a choice. Choices to vote in MP's that actually work for their communities.
Choices to remind the major parties who they work for.

Tag your MP in the comments if you'll be voting for someone else.

01/11/2026

Just waiting to be valued in the same way this country values male-dominated industries.

01/11/2026

🤔Need a template or unsure what to say?
📧Email all the Senators in your State (and the rest of the country too if you like!)
Help yourself 👇

Dear Senator X,
I am writing to you as a clinician/health professional/carer/parent/participant etc. regarding the NDIS Support Determination Disallowance Motion. I am asking you to support this motion. Arbitrarily cutting 50% of participants Social and Community Participation Funding and 10% of their therapy funding is not the answer to managing Scheme expenditure.

Cutting participants funding in this way is not only harmful, but contradictory of the Disability Royal Commission Recommendations. It is not fair to balance the budget on the backs of disabled people.

**Insert any personal story about why this is important to you here.**

Kind regards,
A voting Australian

30/10/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BQ1pYrkxC/?mibextid=wwXIfr

AI assessment tools are not accurate. They are dangerous. The use of this tool in aged care has cost lives.

Talk to any highly qualified health professional and they will tell you: no two people with disability are the same.

If the NDIA just read the reports and assessments they requested they would know this.

But instead they put Australians lives at risk to save a buck.

Shameful!

Read more: https://trib.al/fonmlfr

30/10/2026

A Disallowance Motion has been introduced into the Senate which moves to remove the Minister's ability to cuts participant budgets by 50% in their Social and Community Participation (otherwise known as being able to leave the house instead of being stuck at home unable to leave budget), and cut therapy budgets by 10%.

The Disallowance Motion essentially is a process by which the Parliament can vote to veto a newly introduced rule, regulation, or order, like the cuts. It doesn't remove the Minister's ability to introduce new arbitrary cuts when they so choose, but it would halt this one.

This will be debated and voted on 17th November, 2026.
It's time to get back on the phones and put pressure on your Senators. They need to know that we are still watching, we still care, and we will still be VOTING THEM OUT if they continue to vote for legislation that harms our community and sector.

Link is in the first comment for links to Senators Contact information.

29/10/2026

Here's your friendly reminder that if the major parties wanted to fund the NDIS, they could.
They're just choosing not to.

Australian Labor Party Liberal Party of Australia The Australian Greens

27/10/2026

Are you watching your referrals slowly dry up?
Your business expenses getting higher while your capped hourly rate keeps going backyards despite rapid inflation?
Worried about the future of your business and if you'll still be a clinician supporting the clients that you love working with?

You're not alone. Not by a mile.
Thousands of clinicians and providers are fighting to keep supporting their clients and the powers that be are ignoring the calls for sensible and safe decision making.

The only way that we will get them to listen is to threaten their seats. We cannot worker harder, do better, offer more services. This isn't about the work that we do.
This is about money and power.

Join your union in fighting back.
There is power and strength in numbers. We have those numbers when we work together.

27/10/2026

Great information from OT Society for Invisible Disabilities - OTSi.

We too support the disallowance motion against NDIS cuts. It is critical that we continue to apply pressure on this Government to work for their people, NOT corporate interests.

See OTSi's post for more information!

OTSi supports Senate disallowance motion against NDIS cuts – a critical opportunity for advocacy

Last week, representatives from the Occupational Therapy Society for Hidden and Invisible Disability (OTSi) were in Canberra, where we met with Senator Jordon Steele-John's team, and others, to discuss our significant concerns regarding the NDIS funding cuts introduced through the Ministerial Support Determinations under Section 34.

These include:

🔹 A 50% reduction in funding for Social, Civic and Community Participation (SCCP)

🔹 A 10% reduction in therapy funding

These cuts are already having significant consequences for NDIS participants, families and the allied health professionals supporting them.

Through our members and our engagement with the disability community, we are hearing directly about the impacts on people's access to essential supports, community participation, independence and wellbeing.

As allied health professionals, we are particularly concerned that these are blanket funding reductions that do not adequately account for the individual functional needs, circumstances and support requirements of NDIS participants.

Decisions about disability supports must be informed by individual need, functional evidence and the real-world consequences of reducing access to support.

OTSi therefore fully supports the Senate disallowance motion lodged by Senator Steele-John on Thursday, challenging the Section 34 Ministerial Support Determinations enabling these cuts. https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Disallowance_alert

📅 The motion is currently scheduled for a Senate vote on Tuesday 17 November.

If the Senate votes to disallow the relevant legislative instrument, it can be overturned.

This presents an important opportunity for the disability community, allied health professionals, participants, families and advocates to make their voices heard.

We encourage everyone concerned about these cuts to contact their Senators before 17 November and ask them to support the disallowance motion.

We particularly encourage participants, families and service providers experiencing the direct impacts of these funding reductions to share their experiences with Senators.

The consequences of these decisions are not simply financial. They affect people's capacity to participate in their communities, maintain independence, access appropriate therapy and live the lives they choose.

OTSi will continue to engage in advocacy on this issue, and we will be sharing a template in the coming days to assist individuals and organisations in contacting their Senators.

Funding decisions must not come at the expense of the safety, participation and wellbeing of people with disability.

OTSi stands alongside the disability community in calling on the Senate to support the disallowance motion and address these cuts.

26/10/2026

📉A report by Deloitte Access Economics shows that 10,000-15,000 NDIS care and administrative jobs will be lost by 2030 in South Australia.

📉The report states family members of a person with a disability will be disproportionately impacted having to withdraw from the workforce to provide unpaid care.

📉Thriving Kids is slowly rolling out in SA with a budget of $46.6 million a year

📉It leaves a $263 million dollar gap when compared to what children 0-9 years would have been provided under NDIS. Read the ABC article for more information.

articlehttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-26/sa-disproportionately-vulnerable-to-ndis-changes-report-warns/107306464

South Australia was once the launch site for children under 14 on the NDIS. Now it is grappling with how to handle the federal government’s sweeping changes to the scheme.

23/10/2026

Every child deserves consistency, trust, and care that actually works.

Under the Thriving Kids reforms, the government’s push toward large traditional NGOs and public services puts our skilled local workforce at risk.

Here is what is at stake and why independent clinicians are uniting:
👀Therapeutic Relationships Matter: It takes months and years to build safety, rapport, and capacity with neurodivergent children. Severing these bonds triggers functional regression and forces families through repeated, stressful assessments. 👀Protecting Private Practice: Sole traders, mobile clinicians, and local clinics should not have to shut down or become NGO employees just to keep supporting their clients.
👀Defending Regional Care: Independent practitioners are the backbone of therapy in rural and regional communities. Locking them out causes waiting lists to blow out and collapses local access to care.
👀Meeting Government Standards Together: Professionals Australia is establishing a member-owned, not-for-profit workers' co-operative. Regulated under the Co-operatives National Law, it pools administrative compliance and satisfies strict government procurement rules while keeping surplus reinvested directly into frontline supervision and care.

Join us to work together for a better future.