National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 1329
SUBMISSION TO COMMUNITY AFFAIRS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
NDIS AMENDMENT (SECURING THE NDIS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS) BILL 2026
My name is . I am the parent of two adult children with significant disabilities. They are both in receipt of NDIS funding, which has made a profound difference to their quality of life, ability to participate in employment and live meaningful lives.
I agree with the government that the NDIS needs to be sustainable and that there needs to be appropriate and targeted changes to ensure its ability to support people with disabilities into the future. I support the NDIS Bill, but only with changes to ensure that fairness and justice for people with disabilities is maintained.
I have significant concerns about three particular aspects of the proposed Bill and ask that the Committee recommend these are changed to protect people with disabilities.
• Section 34A. The Minister should not have unlimited power to cut funding to an individual without appeal. Whilst I don’t think this would be misused by the current Minister, I have major concerns about potential future governments with an entirely different agenda. This Bill needs to ensure the rights of people with disabilities are maintained whoever the government of the day happens to be. • Both the tougher unscheduled reassessment rules and loss review rights along with automated decisions and algorithms with no individual appeal concern me greatly. They both place vulnerable people at much higher risk of disadvantage and harm and I believe they go against the principles of the NDIS Act that states people with disability have the same rights as other members of Australian society to realise their potential for physical, social, emotional and intellectual development. If a decision is made by the NDIS that adversely affects the welfare of a person with a disability then the right to dispute that decision should be a fundamental right.
I am currently in my mid 60’s and have no family or support network to care for my children as I grow older and less able to care for them. When I am not able to look after them and advocate for their best interests they will become more dependant on NDIS funded supports to care for them. When the NDIS commenced I was so grateful and comforted to know that they would be looked after when I was no longer able to do so. I am now really worried about their future welfare should these proposed changes become law.
I am asking the Committee to recommend changes to the NDIS Bill to ensure vulnerable people with disabilities are protected from the potential for political misuse of Section 34A along with ensuring people with disabilities have the right to dispute decisions that directly impacts on their essential daily care and quality of life.
I would prefer my name to remain private to protect the privacy of my children.
Yours sincerely