National protests on August condemned Labor plans to cut $38 billion from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and reduce all participants’ funding.
The NDIS cuts make up the biggest part of Labor’s 2026 budget savings, while, at the same time, Labor is spending millions more on the military. While in lock step with the Coalition, it also wants to be seen as compassionate.
Around 20 people joined a silent vigil on August 1 outside South Australia’s Parliament House, organised at short notice by the Protect Our NDIS Alliance and Socialist Alliance Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide.
More than 100 people gathered at City Square in Naarm/Melbourne to protest the proposed cuts. The rallies are demanding that the NDIS bill be scrapped; the cuts are stopped; people are not kicked off the NDIS, and services are expanded and to tax the gas corporations and billionaires.
