Seven in 10 new people joining NDIS for autism
Analysis of government data reveals that 56,000 of the 78,600 participants who entered the scheme between June 2024 and June 2025 shared diagnosis.
For our son, it's the daycare pushing us repeatedly to get the autism diagnosis.
We have seen an occupational therapist who cost $280 for a 1 hour zoom call without my son present and advised it would be around $350 each time she did a visit. Medicare covers $48 that, or our top tier extras cover covers $50.
Or NDIS provides 6 totally free sessions per year. So of course I have started the process of trying to get him on NDIS. I'd be silly not to.
Yep, turns out not everyone with a disability is missing an arm. This is what the NDIS is for. Certain types of politicians can't stand that we are spending a large amount of money on helping people but don't blink at spending even larger sums on phallic underwater machines of death.
Or a Formula one race track 5 minutes from the CBD.