National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Re: National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
dear committee secretary,
I am writing to make a personal submission regarding the National Disability
Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill []2026
i understand that The Committee is accepting personal experience submissions where they specifically address aspects of this bill. i share my brothers lived experience because it directly relates with consequences any changes may clarify restrict reduce delay or narrow access ndis supports people severe psychosocial disability.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 1610
Because of his current NDIS funding, he has been able to access the level of community-based support he requires. This has helped him remain in long-term rehabilitation, become clean, and live harmoniously in a 24/7 assisted home with two other individuals who also live with severe mental health disorders, under the care of support workers. For the first time in decades, my brother has had safety, structure, stability and the right level of support around him.The results have been significant.With appropriate NDIS-funded support, my brother has been able to remain out of acute mental health facilities. His mood has stabilised. His risk has reduced. He has been able to participate more in society. Up until recently, with this level of stability, his medication burden was also able to be reduced.This is what the NDIS is supposed to do.This is not waste.this is not misuseThis is disability support working.My brother’s NDIS package is not evidence of excess funding.It is evidence that proper support works.We use his funding appropriately and only when necessary.His package is not a luxury.it is the reason he is housed, clean safer stable connected it is not repeatedly cycling through homelessness addiction police emergency departments acute mental health admissions crisis services.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 1610 My concern with this Bill is that any move to narrow eligibility, restrict what supports can can be funded, change access rules, or place greater administrative barriers around plans may place people like my brother at serious risk. For people with severe psychosocial disability, stability is not passive. Stability has to be actively supported. If the right supports are removed, delayed or reduced, the persondoes not simply “cope with less.” They often deteriorate.In my brother’s case, if his current level of support is reduced or removed, the likelyoutcome is not independence. It is collapse.He is at high risk of returning to substance use, homelessness, unsafe hostels, mentalhealth crisis, acute hospital admissions, and potentially death.This also needs to be understood in the context of the broader system. In Queensland,families know the reality: acute mental health beds are extremely limited.There are no enough long-term rehabilitation options. There areno safe accommodation optionsfor peoplewithsevereandcomplexmentalillnessTherearenotenoughsafehostelsthatdo notrexposehighlyvulnerablepeopletofurtherharmexploitationsubstanceuseorinstabilityTheNDIScannotbeviewedinisolationfromthehealthsystemhousingsystemjusticeemergencydrugandsystemfamilycarersytemWhen NDISsupportreducedtheneed doesdisappearIf thenDSIsreduces forpeoplikebrotherthecost will disappearItwillsimplymovetoemergencydepartmentspolicehomelessnessservicesageingparentsexhaustedsiblings—andeventuallycoroners.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 1610 My father and I are broken and exhausted from years of care. We love our brother deeply, but love alone is not a service system.Families cannot be expected to replace properly funded disability and psychosocial support. I ask the Committee to ensure any reforms to the NDIS does not unintentionally punish those with severe psychosocial disabilities particularly those whose needs are complex fluctuating high-risk.I also request strong protections participants in this program so changes eligibility funding reassessments plan processes governance fraud prevention administrative rules do result losing very important supports keep them stable in their communities Fraud must not become exclusion Financial sustainability must not achieved pushing people mental illness back into homeless addiction hospital prison pathways unsafe accommodation family collapse The NDIS remains scheme recognises individual need complexity dignity safety community participation For my brother NDIS support added extra It difference stability collapse between it homelessness recovery relapse life serious harm Please reform remove destabilise that keeping like alive housed safe out crisis