It’s an awful, devastating irony.

At the same time as the Disability Royal Commission (DRC) has been documenting widespread abuse, neglect and a lack of support available to disabled Australians, the Federal Government has been flagging cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

To add insult to injury, after almost five years of horrifying evidence at the DRC, the government has accepted in full just 13 of 222 recommendations, leaving the disabled community wondering: will anything actually change?