‘It literally breaks you’: fight for denied NDIS support dominates 23-year-old’s final months

Angela and Hunter Tyne looking through photographs. Angela’s oldest son, Hunter’s brother Toby, died last month after a long fight for greater NDIS supports. Photograph: Lindsay Moller/The Guardian

Toby Tyne would look out at the glistening water on the other side of the window.

For about 12 months the 23-year-old had been unable to get out of bed. The only way he’d left the family home in Kempsey, New South Wales, was in an ambulance.