National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

Submission 1551

I am writing to express concern about the NDIS changes. They are harmful.

People should not be kicked off the NDIS. Disabled people should not suffer. Our funding should not be reduced.

The supports I’ve had from the NDIS have helped me progress and develop for the first time in years. I was drowning metaphorically before getting support. I would suffer if I lost all my support. The stress of that possibility made me so stressed I nearly scratched up my arm, with the only reason I didn’t being that I had putty nearby that one of my therapists gave me. It’s going to greatly make me suffer if this happens to me, and there’s people who would be worse off than me if they lose their supports and I feel really bad and sad just thinking about how it’s going to affect those people if they lose supports. What is being planned to happen is immoral.

I am concerned that the new assessments will not take into account important aspects of disabilities, like the fact many disabilities are dynamic and our functioning varies or that being able to do something should be based on being able to do it consistently. I’m concerned the assessments will very incorrectly just base it on whether we can do something at all.

The social and community participation cuts are also not good. People should have substantial support to access the community. This should be considered a right.

The “need to prove it can’t be treated and will always exist” thing was already a thing before this but I’m hoping that’s not expanding to “you have to do every treatment, regardless of cost or appropriateness first”. Thats inaccessible to some people and will further create (it already exists to some extent due to assessments for things costing q lot) a classist system where people can’t just afford to do what’s needed to get supports, and that is not okay. Also, some therapies and treatments are harmful. ABA which is used for autism sometimes has been shown to cause PTSD in autistic patients. It would be morally wrong to expect that to have been used in order to get support, even if autism could be cured, but we know it can’t be cured, so that would also just be illogical. Likewise, some physical disability might have a surgery that could cure it but it might have a low success rate and a large chance of bad outcomes. It would be morally wrong for that gamble to be required in order for someone to get disability support.

National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

Submission 1551

Please reconsider these decisions. They are bad and harmful decisions. Also, if I lose all my supports, I have zero intention to just stop costing money and neither should any disabled person removed because it’s morally wrong whats being planned and the cuts should not be rewarded.