27/10/2025
Enough Is Enough — Stand With Disabled People and Families
Allied health workers, families, and advocates across the country are standing together because we’ve seen and lived the harm the NDIS , the Education Dept , Mental Health Services, and the broken health system cause every single day.
As Danielle Pickford said:
“Allied health workers stand with Disabled people and their representative organisations because we see the harm the NDIS is causing every day, and many of us live it ourselves. We’re angry, heartbroken and tired of being scapegoated for a system in crisis.
The NDIS’s robodebt-like processes, not people’s vital supports, are the real waste. Disabled people have a legal and human right to the supports they need to live full, ordinary, safe lives with dignity.”
And as Sarah Moran added:
“If the goal is to support Disabled people, start by listening to them, and the people who support them every day. Allied health professionals turn funding into freedom. Remove them, and the system collapses.
Allied health and Disabled people are standing together. We stand for the people who the NDIS was built for.”
But beyond the policies and politics are the real stories children like my daughter, who was placed in a closed down psychiatric unit, denied basic human rights, fresh air, and dignity.
At her lowest point, six security guards were called in to medicate her. Six. Not compassion. Not trauma-informed care. Force.
This is not support. It’s systemic neglect and it’s breaking our children and our families.
As Sarah Moran so powerfully stated:
“Allied Health workers stand shoulder to shoulder with participants in demanding accountability, transparency and genuine co-design from the Albanese Labor Government and the NDIA. The rushed and dangerous reforms have pushed our sector to a breaking point, and we aren’t going to stay quiet. Disabled people and their families deserve better. Our sector deserves better.”
We echo that call.
We will not stay silent while our children suffer, while families crumble under the weight of red tape and disregard.
We stand together Australian Neurodivergent Parents Association - ANPA, NDIS Participants and Providers Australia, and Mental Health Professionals' Network , Mental health supports,for a system that listens and restores dignity.
Because our children deserve better. And we’re not backing down.
Sarah MacRae
Parent, Advocate, and Founder of 24/7 Care Disability Services