Transport

Bungree Aboriginal Association provides a wide range of culturally informed, high-impact services to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people across multiple regions in New South Wales. These services include housing, disability, transport, and health services.

If your child has a disability permit and there is limited street parking on your street, you can contact your local council and discuss having a disabled spot added in front of your house. You will then be able to park here with your child’s disability permit.

Mobility and Accessibility for Children provides a national information resource about the safe transportation of children with disability.

TripView creates trip plans for metro, train, bus, ferry, light rail and coach services. It will list all timetabled services with real-time data, including accessibility information for services.

A guideline on safe car travel: children and teenagers with disability, medical conditions or other needs.

A guideline on Family travel and children with disability, autism or other additional needs.

Special Needs Transport provides transport for eligible students between their school and home. You can check your eligibility through their website.

The Isolated Patients Travel and Accommodation Assistance Scheme (IPTAAS), provides financial assistance towards travel and accommodation costs when you need to travel more than 100km one way or 200km within a week for specialised medical treatment that is not available locally.

The NSW Companion Card program is for people with significant and permanent disability who have a lifelong need for a high level of care to participate in community events and activities.

If your child has a disability permit and there is limited street parking on your street, you can contact
your local council and discuss having a disabled spot added in front of your house. You will then be able to park here with your child’s disability permit.

If you receive the Commonwealth Carer Allowance you may be eligible for a refund on some of the vehicle tax paid when registering a vehicle.

The Community Transport Program (CTP) assists individuals who are transport disadvantaged owing to physical, social, cultural and / or geographic factors. CTP is funded by the NSW Government and aims to address transport disadvantage at the local level via community transport organisations.

The taxi transport subsidy scheme (TTSS) supports NSW residents who are unable to use public transport because of a severe and permanent disability. If you’re eligible, you could receive a subsidy of 50% of a taxi fare, up to a maximum subsidy of $60 and only pay the remaining fare.

The Qantas Carer Concession Card is issued to people with significant support requirements who through a physical, sensory, intellectual, cognitive, or psychosocial disability are unable to travel on the aircraft without the full-time assistance of a carer.

IPTAAS may be able to give you financial assistance with your travel and accommodation expenses if you need to travel long distances for specialist medical treatment.