INTERVIEW: Health Minister Mark Butler ahead of the Budget

There are big changes ahead for the NDIS with some budget cuts and tightened eligibility. Health Minister Mark Butler says the government aims to remove around 160,000 participants by the end of the decade. Children with autism are the largest cohort of NDIS participants, with many set to be moved into the government's new thriving kids program and he says future eligibility will be based on a different set of criteria. He says work is also being done on cultural safety before Indigenous participants are transitioned off the NDIS under the new reform measures. Mr Butler's been talking the SBS Chief Political Correspondent Anna Henderson.

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INTERVIEW: Health Minister Mark Butler ahead of the Budget is an episode from SBS World News Radio by SBS Audio.

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This episode was published on May 9, 2026.

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