Prime Minister Tony Abbott has recommitted the coalition to rolling out the national disability insurance scheme and maintaining individual allowances and benefits for carers.
Launching Carers Week in Canberra on Monday, Mr Abbott said the previous coalition government had a strong record when it came to carers and people with disabilities.
He said the Howard government was able to give very substantial bonuses to carers in its last four budgets.
"We were able to do that because good economic management had provided substantial surpluses that the government was able to distribute in this way," Mr Abbott said.
The Abbott government would aim to exceed its predecessors' spending on disability services and focus its attention on the national disability insurance scheme.
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The NDIS, which is due to start in full by 2019, had been "one very good thing" to come out of the previous parliament, Mr Abbott said.
There was a "very, very long way to go" to implement the scheme, Mr Abbott said, adding that the trials now underway were a good start.
"We will make this work. This is too important for our country to fail this test," he said.
In its election policy document, the coalition committed to "unequivocally maintain the carer payment, carer allowance and carer supplement".
