Family and Child Consultants

I know this is controversial. I know there are people who will read this and immediately become defensive. Some will say the NDIS is under attack. Others will insist the system is fine and only needs “minor improvements.” But honestly? That simply is not true. The NDIS changed lives. It gave many people with disability opportunities, choice, support, dignity, and independence they had never had before. For many families, it was life changing in the best possible way. But somewhere along the way, the conversation stopped being about people and started being about packages, hours, funding, and profit. And that should concern every single one of us. Because the NDIS was never supposed to become an industry. It was supposed to become a support system. Now before anyone twists this — yes, there are incredible providers doing extraordinary work. There are hardworking support workers, therapists, coordinators, advocates, and organisations genuinely changing lives every single day. But we also...

  There are moments when the world should fall silent. Not because there is nothing to say, but because what has happened is so devastating, so deeply wrong, that the usual noise of politics, blame, opinions, and outrage feels almost obscene. The death of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby is one of those moments. A little girl. Five years old. At five, a child should be learning, laughing, playing, asking questions, making mess, being cheeky, being cuddled, being loved. At five, the world should still feel safe. Instead, a family is grieving something no family should ever have to survive. A community is hurting. And a little girl who deserved a whole lifetime has become a headline. As a grandmother, I cannot sit with that lightly. I cannot read her name and move on. Because every child is somebody’s baby. Somebody held her. Somebody loved her. Somebody imagined her growing up. There should have been birthdays. There should have been school photos. There should have been scraped ...