The NDIS is being cut back by 160,000 people, after an election where no cuts were announced
What changed
The government intends to reduce the number of people on the NDIS from about 760,000 to around 600,000 — roughly 160,000 fewer people — over four years. Funding for social and community participation is being reset to 2023 levels, about $31,000 down to $26,000 a person on average. Who qualifies shifts from a diagnosis to an assessment of what you can and cannot do. If you are already on the scheme you are not automatically off it, but plans and budgets change from this year.
Was this put to voters?
No. Labor announced no NDIS cuts at the May 2025 election; its position was that earlier reforms had put the scheme back on track. The cuts were announced in the Budget twelve months later, and the Bill was introduced on 14 May 2026. A Senate committee inquiry is still running and reports on 14 August 2026.
How it’s going where you live
Pick your electorate and this will say what it would take for the number here to be bigger than the margin your seat was won by — which is the number your member can check for themselves.
Where do you stand on this decision?
This is a demonstration. In the real product, Euthyna confirms you are a real person living in this electorate before counting an answer, and you do not pick the electorate yourself. That step is still being built.
Who has responded
Most responses counted here are simulated — nobody was asked for them. Yours would be real and counted.
How people answered is not shown until voting closes — so early numbers cannot sway later ones.
This decision applies across 150 electorates. 46 of them have someone who has responded.
In 1 seat, more people have registered a view than the margin the seat was won by.
Where people have responded
- Longman182 residents · 163 enrolled to vote · 0.1% of the seat
Won by 269 votes in 2025. 135 people changing their mind would have changed the result.Enough people here have registered a view to have changed the result.
- Goldstein130 residents · 117 enrolled to vote · 0.1% of the seat
Won by 175 votes in 2025. 88 people changing their mind would have changed the result.Enough people here have registered a view to have changed the result.
- Bradfield34 residents · 30 enrolled to vote · under 0.1% of the seat
Won by 26 votes in 2025. 14 people changing their mind would have changed the result.More people here have registered a view than the margin this seat was won by.
- Bean29 residents · 25 enrolled to vote · under 0.1% of the seat
Won by 700 votes in 2025. 351 people changing their mind would have changed the result.
- Bullwinkel28 residents · 25 enrolled to vote · under 0.1% of the seat
Won by 1,066 votes in 2025. 534 people changing their mind would have changed the result.
- Fremantle26 residents · 23 enrolled to vote · under 0.1% of the seat
Won by 1,400 votes in 2025. 701 people changing their mind would have changed the result.
- Kooyong23 residents
Won by 1,532 votes in 2025. 767 people changing their mind would have changed the result.
- Menzies19 residents
Won by 2,358 votes in 2025. 1,180 people changing their mind would have changed the result.
- Solomon18 residents
Won by 1,576 votes in 2025. 789 people changing their mind would have changed the result.
- Petrie17 residents
Won by 2,730 votes in 2025. 1,366 people changing their mind would have changed the result.
- Bendigo16 residents
Won by 2,983 votes in 2025. 1,492 people changing their mind would have changed the result.
- Wills14 residents
Won by 3,137 votes in 2025. 1,569 people changing their mind would have changed the result.
Showing 12 of 150 electorates.
25, or half the number it would take to matter there, whichever is fewer. In a small area a handful of answers can identify who gave them. Only people enrolled to vote are counted against a margin; everyone who lives here is counted as a resident. Margins are from the last election and change at a redistribution.
The record
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Across 2 decisions, 472 people in 59 electorates have answered this question.
Should governments be legally held to the policies they take to an election?
This decision is one piece of evidence. The question stands on its own, and every decision like it adds to the same total. Your answer counts once per parliamentary term, not once per decision — and you do not have to answer the decision above to answer this.
Choose where you live, further up, before answering.
What would actually change this
A change to the law. Changes like it begin either as a commitment in a party platform or as a bill brought by an individual member — which means it happens when enough people in enough electorates have said they want it, and that is visible to the people who hold those seats. No one person can do this. The number is the mechanism.
Euthyna publishes what people say so the decision-makers who can act on it can see it. It does not tell anyone how to vote and does not run campaigns.