Riley, what are the proposed cuts, and what's their potential impact?

Yeah, Hannah, there are two main categories of support that the government is proposing to cut in this reform package.

There's the social, civic, and community participation budgets.

As you mentioned, government's proposing to cut these budgets by 50%, a flat cut of 50% to all participants who have the support category in their plan to that budget, and then also to the capacity building daily activities budgets, a reduction of 10%.

They're a bit jargony, those terms of support categories, but what they mean is capacity building daily activity supports, they're mainly going towards therapies, trainings, and assessments, so things like speech therapy to help with communication.

And social and community supports are really to help people with... who have disability get out of the house and participate in their community.

A lot of the supports that are in this support category are provided by support workers.

I think that something people might be curious to know is why has government chosen to cut this part of the NDIS budget and not a different area? Can you explain that to us?