In September 2020, at the height of Covid, when the world’s eyes were glued to the internet, a Twitter user called Mel posted a simple image of the first message she ever received from her partner next to a photo of them embracing.

She tagged the photo with “how it started” and “how it ended”. The simple tweet went viral and sparked a billion internet memes of people showing “how it started versus how it’s going”.

The meme has been used by former first lady Michelle Obama and even the Collingwood Football Club.

This week marks two years since I became Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Government Services. If I was going to use this meme to illustrate how we started and how we are going on the NDIS, I would compare a picture of an empty block of land next to a house under construction.