27/04/2026
‼️A message from our CVO Brigette Kirkpatrick about the recent NDIS announcements.
Am I the only one to be confused as to how slashing community participation funding and mandatory registration means safety?
Safety comes with connection, with relationships. It comes when you don't turn up to a normal routine and someone notices and checks in.
I said a while ago that the government will force everything back into block type funding, just under a different name, and those huge providers who have been able to monopolise and build empires by funnelling business through conflict of interest tunnels will come out on top.
The same providers who let abuse and neglect occur due to their disorganised overbearing systems, filled with red tape and always finding ways to squeeze as much out of someone's plan as possible. The same providers who put quantity over quality, and put disabled people's lives into their rostering systems to decide when someone can take their medication, eat or go to the bathroom.
No one should be benefiting from other people's misery, but the big providers have, and will continue to do so. It will be the same providers that are then 'chosen' to deliver thriving kids, and every other program. These same providers who keep complaining how they are not paid enough and fight for the hourly rates to keep rising. Maybe they could cut things out like company cars instead..
There are so many deals being made in the background here, it stinks of typical corrupt bu****it.
They say they want to crack down on fraud? They should pause to reflect about how the fraud was able to occur in the first place, and how it is able to continue. That's the government's fault, own up and take some responsibility for the part you had in allowing fraud to thrive.
Disabled people shouldn't suffer, stop shifting the blame. Hard working, ethical people registered or unregistered, should not be forced to exit. This will lead us back to the darker ages, institutions under a different name...
📍We will continue to speak out about this like many other service providers, participants and their families.
- 💜 Brigette Kirkpatrick (CVO)
