Two councils, counted apart. On 30 June 2026 the NDIA counted 2,534 participants in the City of Albury, in its Murrumbidgee service district, and 2,219 in the City of Wodonga, in its Ovens Murray district. Each is the largest council in its own district: Albury is slightly ahead of Wagga Wagga (2,398), and Wodonga well ahead of Wangaratta (1,192). Both have grown quickly, from 1,760 in Albury and 1,561 in Wodonga in June 2022. Added together, the twin cities had about 4,750 participants, split between two states' rules.
State rules on each side. Registration with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission is national, and so is an NDIS worker screening clearance once issued. The application process differs: NSW's is run through the Office of the Children's Guardian and Service NSW, explained on our Sydney NDIS provider page, while Victoria's goes through Service Victoria, with Victoria's voluntary disability worker registration and its worker code covered on our Melbourne NDIS provider page. Children's checks are state-based, with visitor exemptions of 30 days at most on each side. We build your site around what you and your workers actually hold, and link to the official guidance on both sides rather than offering advice of our own.
Different local partners. Intereach delivers local area coordination and the early childhood approach across the Murrumbidgee, Mallee, Loddon and Goulburn districts, which puts it on the Albury side; its Albury office is in Kiewa Street. Ovens Murray isn't among Intereach's districts, so Wodonga families deal with a different NDIA partner. Two families a few kilometres apart can therefore be referred to you by different organisations, and a referral form that asks which side of the border the participant lives on helps you respond to each in the right terms.
Hospitals and holidays. Albury Wodonga Health runs the public hospital campuses in both cities. It operates under the authority of the Victorian Department of Health, is jointly funded by the Victorian and NSW governments and describes itself as Australia's only cross-border public health provider, so discharge planners may be referring participants from either side. Office hours are another trap: Intereach's NSW offices closed on Labour Day, Monday 5 October 2026, while its Victorian team stayed available, and Victoria's Grand Final eve and Melbourne Cup holidays are working days in Albury. A line on your contact page saying which days you're closed on each side saves confusion.
Working with us. We're an Adelaide team and work with regional providers by phone and email. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, though none is in Albury-Wodonga and none has NDIS supports as its main work. You send your supports, areas on each side of the river and registration details; we send back a draft link, and you pay once you approve it.