NDIS and Participants Rights

AMPARO has produced information on the rights of NDIS participants to be safe, respected and to receive good quality supports and services, as well as how to complain to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission if their rights are not being respected.

This information also explains what NDIS participants can do if they are unhappy about a decision by the NDIA and lists the NDIS Appeals agencies and Advocacy agencies in Queensland that may help.

Translated Factsheets

Fact Sheet 1 – Understanding Disability in Australia
Fact Sheet 2 – What is the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)?

These fact sheets are available in 39 languages, click on the link to download. Translated Factsheets

Esperance's Story

Esperance leads a full and active life in Brisbane with her family and is involved in many community activities. She discusses her life growing up in Congo with polio, how she settled in Australia, and her plans and hopes for the future.

Click here to watch on YouTube

Shahram's Story

Shahram is from Iran and has a vision impairment, he discusses how he has overcome obstacles and barriers to successfully study and work in Brisbane Australia

Click here to watch on YouTube

Claude and his Family’s Story

Jacqueline and Nasibu are from Burundi, and live in Brisbane with their six children. In this video they speak in Kirundi, their first language, about Claude’s needs for support and assistance to live a good life.

Hoe Say's Story

Hoe Say and his family are of Burmese ethnicity and have lived in Australia for the past seven years. In this video Hoe Say and his mother Ye Kyaw speak about their journey and their hopes for the future.

NDIS and Participants Rights

English

Arabic

Chinese – Simplified

Chinese – Traditional

French

Indonesian (Bahasa)

Hazaragi (audio)

Japanese

Karen (audio)

Kirundi

Korean

Russian

Vietnamese

Translated Factsheets