National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 Submission 1631
I am an NDIS participant with a psychosocial disability.
I will not mince words:
This bill will have a body count associated with it.
Early NDIS material explicitly stated that the Scheme makes a lifetime commitment to providing supports as needed. The plan to reassess all participants betrays this promise.
Many participants, myself included, structured our lives around the expectation that support would be available when needed.
The nature of my disability is that I’m unable to leave the house on my own. I live alone. My social and community participation budget is literally my only way to access in-person services of any kind.
If the result of my review is that there is an “appropriate” treatment I haven’t tried yet, how exactly am I going to access it without support workers…? When the person requires support to access treatment, we’ve created an impossible circular requirement.
The stories about participants investigating voluntary assisted death are not sensationalism. The reality is that if I lose access to the NDIS, my list of options is going to be very, very short, and very, very grim.
All of this harm is foreseeable and preventable.