It's not flash being disabled but at least I'm disabled in Australia, the federal treasurer's brother-in-law once told him.
Fireman Garry Warren - the older brother of Scott Morrison's wife Jenny - was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis in 1999.
At the time his oldest son was just eight and his youngest hadn't even been born.
The father of four continued with the fire brigade for another five years before changing duties and working at call centres.
When their youngest son went to preschool, his wife Michelle studied to become a school teacher.
"Five years raising four boys, studying, supporting Garry. That's a big job," Mr Morrison said during his post-budget address at Parliament House on Wednesday,
His brother-in-law now gets himself around in a wheelchair and recently would commute 1.5 hours to and from work across Sydney.
"Garry told me just how helpful his fellow commuters, his fellow Australians were," the treasurer said.
"He said, 'it's not flash being disabled, it's not flash. But if there's anything good about it, he said, it's that you're disabled in Australia'."
Mr Morrison said it was an incredibly generous statement about the big hearts of Australians.
"So last night I was very proud to declare that as a treasurer in the Turnbull Government, we would fully fund the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS).
"That's what this is about. That story."
The government looked at the half per cent already in the Medicare levy to help fund the NDIS and decided to add another half point - lifting the levy to 2.5 per cent total from July 2019.
Mr Morrison said he expected Australians would be big enough to support such a measure, to look after their "mates".
