Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) | Hansard source

Thank you very much to Senator Brown for her question on this absolutely important and massive reform in the disability sector in Australia. Obviously, the senator would be well aware this is once in a lifetime—it is a massive reform—and us moving away from the block funding model that operated in the past to this demand driven model has been something that's changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Australians who live with disability and their families who care for them.

Senator Brown, I'm delighted to be able to advise the Senate that more than 300,000 Australians now have been receiving benefits through the NDIS. Of that 300,000, probably the most important statistic is the fact that 100,000 of those people weren't receiving anything at all before the rollout of the NDIS.