AFI
Listens
AFI Listens is our community consultation platform — a space where people with disability can share what matters most to them.
Your Voice.
Your Story.
Your Pace.
Have your say on what you want AFI to focus on — at your own pace, in your own words.
My number 1 priority for AFI is:
Tell us the single most important issue you'd like AFI to focus on?
Our Current Consultations:
Finding the Right Housing
Coming Soon
Prioritising Royal Commission Reforms
Coming Soon
About AFI Listens
Canberrans with disability have spoken up – in the media, in the Assembly, in public forums, and online. That work has mattered. It has also been exhausting.
Too often, the listening in return has been partial or performative. Life-changing programs change without us. Strategies are developed around us. And being heard is not the same as being listened to.
Real listening means response. It means accountability. It means action.
AFI Listens exists to make that real.
This is a space to share your views, see what others are saying, and track what changes as a result. We’re committed to being open about how feedback is used – and to showing that it has been.
Because listening without change isn’t listening at all.
What we will do with your feedback
When you share feedback with us, we use it to understand people’s views, strengthen our advocacy, and inform our projects, reports, and recommendations.
You only need to share what you’re comfortable with. If you’d prefer to give feedback without your personal details, that’s fine.
We treat your information with care. We won’t use it for other purposes, share it beyond the people working on this project, or sell it – ever. If we use your feedback in a report or submission, we’ll remove identifying details unless you’ve agreed otherwise.
Your information is stored securely, in line with our privacy obligations.
If you want to access, correct, or ask questions about the information you have shared with us, please contact us.
ACT Companion Card: Program Review
Advocacy for Inclusion (AFI) has been engaged by the ACT Government to review the ACT Companion Card program.
As part of this review, we want to hear from people with knowledge or experience of the program. This includes cardholders, potential cardholders, family members, supporters, businesses, venues, service providers, and others with an interest in how the program works in practice.
Your feedback will help shape our recommendations about what is working well and what could be improved.
Have your say on the ACT Companion Card program review
Have your say
We’re interested in hearing about:
- - How well known and accessible the program is across the ACT
- - What the application process is like, including any barriers people experience
- - What people value most about the program
- - How easy it is to find participating businesses and venues – and whether staff know what the card is when you present it
- Any ideas for improving the program in the future
Share your feedback
These questions are a guide – feel free to answer in whatever way works for you.
NDIS Reforms
The NDIS is facing its most significant restructure since it was established.
Proposed changes include:
Cuts of 30 per cent to social and community participation budgets from October 2026
A reduction in average plan values of around $5,000
New eligibility criteria that could see 160,000 participants leave the Scheme by 2030, and new Ministerial powers to reduce funding across categories of support without individual review.
A Senate committee is inquiring into the legislation now, with submissions closing 29 May 2026.
Advocacy for Inclusion is making a submission on behalf of the ACT Disability Caucus and wants to make sure the voices of Canberrans with disability are heard.
Tell us what the NDIS means to you
We want to hear from people with disability, families, carers, and anyone with a perspective on these changes – in your own words, in whatever way feels right for you.
You might want to share what the NDIS makes possible in your life. You might want to tell us what you are worried about losing. You might want to describe what has already changed, or how these announcements have made you feel. There are no wrong answers here – your experience and your voice matter.
Responses will be treated with care and in accordance with our privacy policy.
Transforming the Transport Experience
Getting around Canberra should feel safe, comfortable and easy – but for many people with disability, it doesn’t. Public attitudes and the behaviour of transport staff play a significant role in shaping those experiences.
Transport Transformed is a project led by Advocacy for Inclusion, in partnership with Deloitte Access Economics and Rebus Theatre. It will use the real experiences of people with disability in the ACT to drive genuine attitudinal change across Canberra’s transport system – buses, trams, taxis, rideshare, community transport, and beyond.
What you tell us will directly shape a research report, a co-design process with transport industry stakeholders, and ultimately a series of live theatre performances designed to change how transport staff think about and respond to people with disability.
This is about making sure your lived experience is at the centre of the solution, not an afterthought.
Have your say
Have your say on transport in Canberra
We want to hear from anyone with disability who has a perspective on or experience with public transport in the ACT – good, bad, or somewhere in between. Every experience matters.
The survey takes around 10-15 minutes to complete and is open until the end of May 2026.
An Easy Read version is available. If you have other accessibility requirements, please contact us at info@advocacyforinclusion.org and we will do our best to help.
Take the survey here: https://surveyapac.deloitte.com/jfe/form/SV_38namDbuNpKmwAe
Your responses will be treated with care and in line with our privacy policy. If your experience is used in a report or publication, identifying details will be removed unless you have agreed otherwise. This project is funded under the Australia’s Disability Strategy Grant. The project has the support of the Commonwealth Government, Transport Canberra and Canberra Metro Operations (CMET).
Making inclusive events
Advocacy for Inclusion (AFI) is developing an Accessible Events Guide to help organisations plan and deliver events that are more accessible and inclusive for people with disability
Help shape AFI’s Accessible Events Guide
What makes an event truly accessible?
We want to hear from people with disability and others with lived or practical experience of accessibility at events – what works, what doesn’t, and what event organisers need to know to do better. This includes in-person, online and hybrid events.
Share your experience – what’s worked well, what hasn’t, and what you wish event organisers understood.