This year has been tough for disabled people across Australia.
From NDIS cuts to inaction on the Disability Royal Commission recommendations, this government keeps putting us last.
The cost of living crisis is hitting disabled people hard—accessible, affordable housing is scarce, the disability support pension hasn’t increased meaningfully, and the cost of food and healthcare keeps rising.
To get better outcomes for disabled people, we need more disabled leaders.
That's why the Greens have a plan to:
- Establish a $5 million Election Access Fund to support disabled people to inclusively contest Federal elections.
- Create a $150 million grants program to fund Disability Pride events across the country; to support community-led events that focus on inclusion, reclaiming disability identity and building a sense of pride.
- Provide an additional $50 million of sustainable resourcing for disability advocacy organisations, to enable them to support disabled people through the NDIS, health systems, legal systems and other areas of their lives.
Disabled people deserve representatives in parliament, community-led events free from corporate profiteering, and well-funded advocacy organisations.
Together, these build real disability community power.
Join our campaign to get more disabled people into leadership and ensure the government can’t make decisions about us without us.