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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Basford Canales

Disability groups join states in surprise at plan to divert children with autism from NDIS

NDIS minister Mark Butler at the National Press Club in Canberra, 20 August, 2025.
NDIS minister Mark Butler at the National Press Club, 20 August, 2025. Plans to divert some children with autism from the NDIS have taken advocates by surprise. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Disability representative groups say they are “collectively disappointed” after being blindsided by the Albanese government’s plans to divert children with mild to moderate developmental delays or autism from the NDIS.

Ten of Australia’s biggest disability groups have urged the new NDIS minister, Mark Butler, to commit to co-designing a new program for mild-to-moderately impaired children in a joint statement on Thursday evening.

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