National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 1356
I am writing to you to advocate for the voices of the thousands of disabled people who are unable to do so themselves.
I do NOT support this bill, I ask the committee to please re-consider the proposed changes, and I ask the government to withdraw this bill. You are harming thousands and thousands of lives.
These cuts are absolutely disgusting and unjust. Removing and cutting the funding that disabled people need to just live their lives.
Thousands of disabled people around Australia right now are terrified; terrified that any day they could lose up to 30% of their support, or worse, lose all their supports entirely. You are taking away the supports people need to simply just EXIST.
It’s horrible and immoral to remove 160,000 THOUSAND participants from the NDIS in which they were rightfully approved. They all took out so much effort, money, time, energy and jumped through leaps and bounds to get into this system just to get the support to be able to LIVE.
These people have benefited from these supports for years, they have been able to improve their quality of life, you cannot just decide to remove it all in an instant. It is disgusting and immoral.
You will ruin so many lives. You may push disabled people to suicide as they won’t have the money to support themselves to function. There will be a severely reduced quality of life for these people. You are causing nothing but harm, you are putting thousands of disabled people at risk of potential suicide. You are being selfish and ableist to save some money by targeting these poor disabled Australians that you think cannot fend for themselves. You do not care about lives, about disabled people, about Australians.
These people deserve to live, they have every single right to have this support, they are entitled to every single human right as the rest of us and you are taking that away. Why not investigate the people misusing the NDIS? Why not investigate the unapproved and dodgy “providers”? Why not fix your system and not take it out on the participants who have done absolutely nothing wrong and have every right to their funding and supports. Why not tax the incredibly wealthy 1% bit more? Why not tax gas exports? Tax big corporations? But instead you target disabled people who cannot speak up for themselves.
Funding cuts aside, the new administrative, communication and non-contactable rules are ridiculous. You have added countless leaps and bounds and hurdles for participants to even access the supports they need. The process within NDIS is already hard enough, and you want to make it harder to push disabled people away as many will not have the capacity to upkeep with these changes. The NDIS is supposed to make their lives EASIER and you are doing nothing but adding hurdles and harm. You are giving disabled people no freedom, you are controlling their lives, you have no care or understanding for disabled people and how hard the NDIS is for them already. You are restricting lives, you are causing greater problems, you are deliberately making this hard to save money and push out the disabled
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 1356
people who are unable to do these things for themselves, who cannot communicate well if at all, who cannot advocate for their own life, their own needs, instead you want to push them into a box and rip everything from them and ruin their lives. You are putting burden after burden on these people who struggle enough as is. These people deserve rights. They deserve this funding. They deserve support which they have rightfully been approved.
This is horrific and cruel. You targeted people who could not defend for themselves, who are unable to speak up, who are not physically able to attend protests and rallies, who cannot speak or write their voices to protest against these disgraceful actions.
Please do not reduce supports, please do not make the administrative and communication processes harder than they already are, please do not kick thousands of disabled people off this scheme, please do not reduce funding to the NDIS. This bill is wrong, it is cruel, it is inhumane, it is unjust.
Please listen to me. Please listen to disabled people, please listen to the voices of those fighting for the NDIS, please listen to the senators, the politicians, the MPs, to everyone who is just wanting better lives for disabled people, for everyone. You must withdraw these changes. There are countless ways around this.
I ask the committee to consider my words when reviewing this bill. Thank you for listening and thank you for your time.