QIDAN welcomes the Queensland Government’s pledge of $5 million of funding in their 2025-26 budget to maintain disability advocacy in support of Queenslanders. In the lead up to the budget, QIDAN provided a written submission to Queensland Treasury and proposed a modest increase in funding to allow for an increased reach from 0.25% to 1.25% of the population of people with disability.

The continuation of uplift funding will ensure our sector can continue to deliver vital advocacy and support Queenslanders with disability to understand their rights, navigate service systems, address discrimination, conflict and unfair treatment, make informed decisions, safeguard well-being and build capacity to self-advocate. We are awaiting details on how the funding will be spread out across the organisations and services in the sector.

We are hopeful this funding will allow us to continue to provide advocacy to Queenslanders with disability, increase outreach connections with communities, including people in regional, rural and remote areas, and build capacity for advocates in the QIDAN network.