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Please find attached a letter describing concerns from the Disability Representative Organisation (DRO) for autistic Australians, the national group that represents and advocates for the full autistic spectrum including many autistic Australians diagnosed formally with severe and/or profound disability many of whom cannot speak for themselves and whose interests are not represented by autistic self-advocates (who mainly represent their own part of the autism spectrum). 

Bob Buckley lodged a formal complaint to The Nightly about their publication of an article MARK RILEY: Drastic changes coming to NDIS as unofficial rorting by parents is increasing cost to taxpayers 18/4/2026 that claims:

The only reasonable assumption is that parents have been gaming the system, exaggerating their children’s symptoms in order to secure packages. 

Dear Ministers

The NDIS shut down AEIOU, an early intervention service for severely or profoundly autistic very young children. This was the type of service that should have been essential for many autistic children who will remain in the the NDIS following the imminent Thriving Kids purge. 

Attached is an article that proposes positive ways forward rather than the government's continuing war of autistic Australians ... some of who are among the nations most vulnerable citizens. 

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Introduction

The NDIS Review correctly indicated that the NDIS needs “to improve the planning process and focus on a person’s disability support needs”.

The Review was wrong to suggest that the NDIS already focussed on “diagnosis or functional impairment”. The NDIS has shown repeatedly that it does not understand autism diagnosis, or the support needs that arise from “functional impairment” due to autism. 

Dear NDIS Ministers Butler and McAllister

Dear NDIS Ministers Butler and McAllister

no doubt you are aware of the AFR editorial today, A truly sustainable NDIS must stop autism creep (see https://archive.md/4GcDX). Your government needs to push back on this misinformation immediately if it hopes to preserve any credibility in relation to autism policy.  

The creep here is the uninformed author of this article.

Media Release

Families of autistic children say they are being left in the dark about how the government will determine which children are classified as having “mild to moderate autism” under the Thriving Kids program. 

Recently, government reported on its Thriving Kids program for children with “mild to moderate autism”: it released reports from