National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 1130
Dear Parliament,
My name is , I live in , I am writing to you about the NDIS Future Generations Bill 2026.
I am asking you to vote against the bill unless it is amended.
As a mother, who is on the NDIS, due to an accident, with 3 children on the scheme, I want my concerns on the record and I want you to write back to me with YOUR position on the bill.
I want to bring to your attention the cut of social and community participation funding cuts from October 2026. I cannot without help of support workers leave my house, for myself or my children, so cutting this funding will isolate not only me, but my children as well.
Further I want to say how divisive the new “all appropriate treatments” test for permanence for scheme eligibility is. We live in regional QLD, where waitlists and availability of “appropriate treatments” are limited as it is. To make it so that only those that already have the means and opportunity to try all treatments is making sure low socioeconomic groups and rural and regional people never get on the scheme, only those that already have the wealth to access “all appropriate treatments”.
The automated decisions and algorithms with no individual appeal or human oversight is scary, there will be errors that can be catastrophic. There is precedent of other automated systems in Australia that did not go so well; “Robodebt”.
34A that the minister can cut the funding without any oversight from a plan from one day to the next. It’s a plan, how are we as participants meant to plan, sign service agreements when we don’t know from day to day what is in the plan. Please don’t let this happen.
33 (20ea) Cutting funding to a class of supports, it is not appropriate that a minister without any allied health training decides how much funding should go to a certain therapy or what the ratio of staff for a certain participant, these are things that should be left to professionals in their field to recommend, not lay people, without oversight.
34 (1) AA whole person approach is being abolished, only supports directly from your NDIS approved disability will be supported It creates medical problems when two different disabilities interact. People are going to need to prove more and spend more time trying to get all their disabilities on the scheme or they will not count, this is not ok.
The Automatic rollover, without reassessment, at the end of a plan and removal of one of items. For me that means I will never get a new wheelchair if I don’t regress so badly that I need a reassessment under the new tougher “unexpected changes rule”. I will never get new reusable nappies for my teenager as he grows or new bed protectors as they disintegrate from use. 48A Asking for an unscheduled reassessment, not only is 90days very long when something unexpected has happened and you need help. When I had my accident we were able to get a reassessment within a month for my children and the assessment went in our favour and we didn’t need to go to ART. With the new bill there is not safety net. Additionally if I don’t
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 1130
respond, the NDIS can now fine me and kick me of the scheme and fine me if I don’t answer to a information request in a “reasonable” time 40A and 31A.
Please don’t let this change go through without amendments.
My life and my children’s lives are worth more than this, our lives will be significantly harder to manage and there are going to be a spill into other services having to pick up the slack, like hospitals and Cairns Hospital can’t take much more right now, as it is.
I ask you to listen directly to disabled people, carers, clinicians and advocacy organisations before supporting reforms that may cause significant long-term harm.
Please oppose this bill.
Kind Regards