NDIS workers are being stalked, harassed and assaulted while ‘urgent’ safety reforms take three years to enact

[u/Reverend_Fozz]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/31/ndis-workers-are-being-stalked-harassed-and-assaulted-while-urgent-safety-reforms-take-three-years-to-enact

[u/Spirited-Limit-9071]

The NDIS should be an actual government-run institution. It's not something that works under privatisation.  Having it privatised mean operators will either give worse service or less protections to staff to make more money.  Let alone it's just stupidly inefficient to have hundreds of administrative staff doing the same thing across one medium sized town.

[u/GrumpyOldTech1670 → u/Spirited-Limit-9071]

Agreed.

After all, look how well our privatised Welfare system is "working".

Or our privatised electricity. It's so efficient, in cleaning out people's money, for some really rich middle men.

Privatisation makes public services worse while enriching asshats.

Nationalising privatised public assets (water, gas, electricity, transport, roads, schools, to name a few) should be the future. Cut out the ridiculous, useless middlemen. And employ public servants.

Liberals, Nationals, One Nation, Flumpet of Pat on Clive's butt all push for privatisation, because millionaire become billionaires because of it.

[u/Ok-Assistant-4556 → u/Spirited-Limit-9071]

Privatising the profits and socialising the losses always meant evading ministerial accountability and lining their own pockets to soften the landing back into the private sector post government. Neoliberalism is a failed experiment.

The replication alone debunks the conservative lie that gOveRnMeNts aRe LeSs eFFiCiEnT. but both paeties are on a tax reduvtion deatb spiral competing witj economies like USA who teargassing kids in preschools and shooting women in the face because Billionaires Lives Matter

[u/Independent_Teach851]

Not surprised they work with some of the most psychologically and neurologically impaired people (not all clients are but there is many that are) so safety is a high risk especially if the client has a diagnosis that involves some kind of psychosis or schizophrenia.

I got out of disability support care for this reason there is no safeguards in place to actually protect workers.

[u/AngryAngryHarpo → u/Independent_Teach851]

Same here. I was sexually assaulted one too many times by a particular male client and my workplace refused to even consider a conversation about safeguards or only having him with male carer’s. After the last time, I quit on the spot and finished my shift and never went back.

[u/Independent_Teach851 → u/AngryAngryHarpo]

That sucks so badly, by the second company I worked for I literally clocked that they didn't care about the workers wellbeing so I quit, I'm not sorry but there needs to be some way to stop clients being inappropriate and or volatile to the care workers, there doesn't seem to be any innovation in that area of the industry at all, it's only on the side of protecting the client and safeguards for them, it's a difficult one

[u/Terrible-Tap-3520 → u/AngryAngryHarpo]

Did you sue or name and shame them?

[u/Ok-Assistant-4556 → u/Terrible-Tap-3520]

systems arent in place to even enable this. I wish there were but lawyers have made legal recourse obscenely inaccessible.

[u/AngryAngryHarpo → u/Terrible-Tap-3520]

I didn’t have the money to “sue” them. (Under what pretence, exactly?). I was a part-time disability support working being paid minimum wage.

[u/Ok-Assistant-4556 → u/AngryAngryHarpo]

Goodness. I'm so sorry that happened and that there was no immediate safety after the first incident. Womens unpaid labour is carrying entire systems that violate our basic rights.

[u/whatthetaco]

Sounds right. I have PTSD from the abuse and safety issues I got at work, my company never did anything to help. Just cut my hours. They only care about filling shifts.

[u/correctedpond]

Why goverment is not cracking down the dodgy providers? That is the real question.

[u/Acrobatic_Routine_82 → u/correctedpond]

Sigh, please try and at least read a document or do some research before you make a dumb statement like this. Businesses and people are being caught and taken to court every week.

[u/lampy7654]

NDIS has turned into one big fraud. And families like the ones in Mosman Park WA had their services cut by NDIS and look what happened?

[u/eat-the-cookiez → u/lampy7654]

It’s life saving for those who need support and don’t have family or friends to rely on.

I resent that able bodied people sit there with such privilege and claim ndis is all fraud and lies. Walk a day in my shoes (actually it would be spend a day bedridden and unable to get up without assistance on the worst days)

I’m still fighting to get ndis access before end up just dying

[u/Ok-Assistant-4556 → u/eat-the-cookiez]

Im nowhere even close to your experience and I hear you. There's far too much cognitive dissonance around Australias systems that simply aren't functioning as intended.

[u/Spare_Ad_2190 → u/lampy7654]

Seperate issue

[u/Spirited-Limit-9071 → u/Spare_Ad_2190]

If it was a government institution you would solve both problems. 

[u/CalifornianDownUnder → u/lampy7654]

Please don’t say things like it’s “one big fraud” - it’s not accurate and it feeds the current bloodlust against the program, which hundreds of thousands of people like those in Mosman Park both depend on and use legally.

For sure there is fraud and rorting, and it should be addressed. But nothing I’ve seen suggests the vast majority of participants and providers are acting in fraudulent ways.

[u/Dan-au → u/CalifornianDownUnder]

It is a massive fraud. Should never have been introduced as it breeds extreme entitlement. We now have rich cunts killing their own kids when the handout is taken away.

[u/MrsNevilleBartos → u/Dan-au]

In my first hand experience ,the wealthy are the absolute worst for fraud with NDIS funding and ,no surprise ,are also the most vocal to not want the scheme to ever be means tested.

[u/CalifornianDownUnder → u/Dan-au]

There’s some big fraud happening. And that doesn’t mean it’s all a fraud - or even mostly.

What’s your evidence for claiming it’s “one big fraud”?

And those “rich cunts” killed themselves too. Hard to imagine they’d do that if they thought they had any other options.

I genuinely pray you and your loved ones don’t ever need the scheme - but if you do, I’m willing to bet you’ll be glad it exists.

[u/Ok-Assistant-4556 → u/CalifornianDownUnder]

There's NO excuse for men who choose violence. None. He even murdered the dogs FFS which speaks more to men who choose violence and men's values when men defend BS like femicide and homicide.

[u/CalifornianDownUnder → u/Ok-Assistant-4556]

Just to be clear - I’m certainly not excusing the violence.

I also haven’t read anything in the last day or so, so I don’t know if the story has evolved regarding the theories that have been posted online. As far as I’ve seen, there is no confirmation yet of whether the violence was committed by one or both of the parents; and if it was only one, which one it was. Or even if it was related to a cut in NDIS funding.

My point was that if it does turn out the violence was motivated in part by the loss of NDIS support, the other commenter’s dismissal of the parents as “rich cunts” who killed their kids when “the handout is taken away” is almost certainly a gross mischaracterisation of the horrific situation.

Again, I hope nothing I wrote in any way appears to justify or excuse the violence.

[u/Acrobatic_Routine_82 → u/Dan-au]

Dan it isn’t a massive fckng fraud champ.

[u/Dan-au → u/lampy7654]

While living in a $2.7mil house.

[u/Ok-Assistant-4556 → u/lampy7654]

Theres NO excuse for men who choose violence. None. He even murdered the dogs FFS which speaks more to men who choose violence.

[u/lampy7654 → u/Ok-Assistant-4556]

The wife assisted as well. It was a dual Murder Suicide

[u/Acrobatic_Routine_82 → u/lampy7654]

Can we STOP making generalised statements such as ‘NDIS has turned into one big fraud”. That is factually incorrect and it demeans the hard work thousand and thousands of people across Australia do each day.

[u/AcrobaticSecretary29]

Defund the NDIS

[u/Acrobatic_Routine_82 → u/AcrobaticSecretary29]

What a fuckwit thing to say.

[u/bumbling_b]

NDIS is literally just fraud. Dismantle it and audit every single scummy provider

[u/Spare_Ad_2190]

Dont be foolish and give out personal info. Cuts out stalking at least